YouTubers 8 2026 – 21 x 30cm, pencil, charcoal, oil pastel on paper
This work on paper shows some kind of chaotic flood cascading between two relatively calm figures. The contrast is visceral, those carefully delineated figures in their colored vertical stripe zones versus that absolute chaos overwhelming the space between them. It’s like watching a conversation get drowned out by interference, by noise, by something uncontrollable flooding the channel.
The two figures are remarkably composed given what’s happening around them. Between them is torrential darkness, a mass of charcoal marks that reads as static, as data overflow, as signal collapse, as literal flooding.
The chaos in the center doesn’t respect boundaries, it bleeds into their zones, threatens to engulf the two figures. The charcoal work is extremely dense in the central area, layer upon layer of marks creating almost sculptural darkness. It has weight, mass, momentum. It’s more than visual interference; it’s material intrusion. Information tsunami, the moment when signal degrades into complete noise.
The directness of drawing captures the urgency of the moment when infrastructure fails, when too much information floods the channel, when the system can’t process what’s being demanded of it. The figures persist, still present, still attempting to broadcast, but they’re being drowned out by forces beyond their control.