Citrinitas

A seated figure, robed, folded inward — head bowed, hands gripping cloth at the knee. The body occupies the full height of the frame. Vertically, the image is split: left of centre, sulphurous yellow floods the figure's front, its surface eruptive, lifting in patches like burning paper; right of centre, the same body rendered in deep graphite and brushed dark oil, dense and cool. A second, smaller head rests low in the figure's lap — crumpled, eyes shut, turned away. Two readings of the same form coexist without merging. The yellow side carries residue — gold flaking from beneath, a surface mid-consumption; the dark side is finished, sealed, wearing the marks of the tool that made it. Neither is more present than the other. The second head anchors the lower register: a figure holding what it may have been, or what it carries.