THE CONVERSION SERIES · III
The Champion
2026 · Acrylic on canvas · 40 × 40 inches · One of One

The sport is the most honest of all the institutions. There are no vestments here, no ceremony, no inherited title. Only the body.
The figure enters the ring carrying its own geometry — the belt already coded, the gloves already worn, the mask already present before any opponent arrives.
The concentric rays behind it are not applause. They were already there.
It did not come to win. It came to be seen.






