the shot without the gun

‘the shot without the gun’ emerges from a state of internal pressure. a quiet violence that turns inward, shaping containment and transformation beyond visible events. the series engages the psyche as a space of contradiction, where silence operates as language and the body absorbs what resists articulation. masks recur as traces of adaptation, worn to endure and belong. the horse appears as a carrier of memory and ancestry. its presence is rooted in a familial rupture: a great-grandfather shot while riding a horse.
this image persists as imprint rather than narrative, returning through posture, weight, and latent alertness. marked by migration, the work reflects a process of reconstruction through layers of language and displacement. the figures remain faceless, open to projection. monochrome red collapses body, memory, and space into a single mental field