Young Dad

This portrait of the artist’s father, rendered entirely from straight lines, embodies the paradox at the heart of existence: the finite forming the infinite. Each line is simple, yet together they weave the likeness of a young man—capturing not only his features but the echoes of a life unfolding through time.The circle of life is evoked not through curves but through the accumulation of edges, suggesting that continuity arises from fragments, and wholeness from the interplay of parts. Just as a life is composed of countless decisions and directions, the portrait reveals how the linear gives rise to the cyclical. What appears mechanical is, at its core, profoundly human—an inheritance of memory, presence, and becoming, drawn in the most elemental of marks.