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ser is a series of black Indian ink drawings created over photographs of ceremonial masks from ancestral and so-called “primitive” cultures across the globe. By intervening on these powerful cultural artifacts, the project explores the boundaries between concealment and revelation, engaging with the visual language of the face as a site of identity, transformation, and ritual. The ink acts both as a gesture of erasure and emphasis, layering new forms over existing ones and inviting viewers to confront the ambiguity of what is seen and what is suggested.
At its core, the series questions where identity begins and how it is perceived—particularly when filtered through elements of fantasy, mythology, or religious symbolism. By abstracting and altering the facial features of these masks, the drawings blur the line between the recognizable and the imagined, probing the unstable terrain of visual identity.