Minimalist black-and-white block shapes resembling two houses side by side or a pixelated Space Invader.

Neighbor/Space Invader

(Glyph Drawing No. 6)

Charcoal and graphite on paper

19 x 24 inches

Neighbor/Space Invader (Glyph Drawing No. 6) continues the series’ exploration of graphic abstraction, here distilling form to its most economical expression. The composition resembles a magnified digital sprite — an icon so enlarged its individual “pixels” become visible. The shapes might evoke a fragment of a classic arcade Space Invader frozen mid-attack or two suburban houses pressed shoulder to shoulder. The title teases out a double meaning: a “neighbor” can be a friendly presence — or an uninvited one encroaching on your space. The work plays with the space between digital nostalgia and the shared physical world, between familiarity and intrusion.
Graphic abstraction with repeating polygonal forms blocks, suggestive of tightly packed suburban homes or an arcade game character.
Detail of Neighbor/Space&nbspInvader (Glyph Drawing No. 6), showing an even, sandy, tactile black charcoal texture, interrupted by a sharp white triangular shapes of the underlying paper with faint graphite grid lines.