One-Eyed Assembly

One-Eyed Assembly is a series of abstract faces drawn as if they are being built in real time: one dominant eye, a few decisive contours, and small “stitches” that hold the figure together. Each portrait carries multiple angles at once: profile and front, clarity and distortion, humor and unease. The line is graphic and minimal, but the head becomes a crowded site.

It grew out of the feeling that identity is never singular, it is assembled. I draw faces the way a mind edits itself: emphasizing one gaze, flattening another, cutting and rejoining the outline until the figure feels both readable and wrong. The repeated eye becomes a symbol of focus and surveillance at the same time, how we watch ourselves, how we’re watched, and how a single moment can eclipse everything else.

Rather than aiming for a complete likeness, I treat portraiture as a negotiation between roles, moods, and daily noise. The work stays intentionally spare, limited marks, clean space, so the tension has room to speak. These are not portraits of a person as a fixed subject, but portraits of a person as an ongoing construction: patched, angled, and constantly reassembled.