️ Artist Statement:

“The Mark Beneath” explores what is left when the visible is stripped away not by choice, but by force. The violet veil, now more armor than adornment, conceals all but the essential: breath, memory, and the faint trace of a wound.

The "X" on the cheek is not a scar, but a recording device a glyph of survival, of marked bodies, of those written over but never erased.

This piece closes the veil series as a portrait of quiet defiance. The figure is not hiding. They are transforming.

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