A mechanical skull with a gear-shaped eye and ribbed jaw, rendered in bone white and warm black ink scratched into wax, set against a watercolour wash of burnt sienna and deep violet.

Nº 03

Mixed media

I was thinking about old machinery. Things that are worn out but still turning. The skull came out of that. Not as a death thing, more like something mechanical that keeps going even when it's falling apart. I scratched into the wax until the jaw appeared.