A human figure with a performative posture and a sense of pride—draped in metal chains heavy with coins: gleaming yet burdensome. These adornments are not ornaments but weights; luxury worn to obscure an internal void. *Gilded Emptiness* reflects the fragility of a self masked in wealth—hollow beneath the gleam. The work stands as a critique of material valuation and the illusion of worth that conceals a crumbling identity.
