Neither use nor ornament (Prints)

In Neither Use nor Ornament, the artist presents a fragmented self-portrait that merges paint, collage, and found materials into a vivid exploration of identity and value. The work contrasts delicate, realistic features with chaotic layers of texture and colour, suggesting both vulnerability and resistance. Everyday trinkets, fragments of text, and discarded objects are embedded into the surface — things once deemed useless or decorative, now transformed into symbols of memory and reconstruction. The glowing halo of neon pigment frames the face like an aura, while the lower half dissolves into abstraction, blurring boundaries between self and surroundings. Through this synthesis of the beautiful and the broken, the artist questions what it means to be seen, and whether worth lies in function, adornment, or the act of becoming.