Duplex, very thin hatch drawings (1984)

I recently found a series of drawings from my youth. I remember drawing a lot, even when I didn’t have a clear reason—just the impulse to shape something, to give form to whatever emerged.

These two figures reflect that instinct: hybrid forms where anatomy, plant life, and surreal design intersect. The upper figure balances precariously on a pedestal, its elongated limbs and abstract head suggesting both fragility and intent. The lower figure appears rooted in the ground, arms folded in a gesture somewhere between reflection and resistance—its entire structure symmetrical, yet unsettling.

Drawn in 1984 with a Staedtler Mars Matic 700, using very thin hatch technique, these images were not about explanation—but about imagining forms that didn’t yet exist, and perhaps still don’t.