Yanis Varoufakis II 2025 – 21 x 29cm, pencil on paper
In the context of the Extraction/YouTuber series, this second Varoufakis drawing takes the theme of “voice under siege” to its most kinetic extreme. Where the first portrait was coiled tension, this one is release: the moment the dam breaks, the moment the argument is no longer contained but launched.
The radiating lines read simultaneously as intellectual shrapnel, algorithmic interference, and the sheer force of someone who refuses to be silenced or moderated.
It’s the opposite of dissolution.
Here, the figure is expanding, insisting, filling the page even as systems try to shrink him. The small scale only intensifies the effect: it is as if the drawing itself might detonate.