Encore presents a diptych of hybrid figures suspended in a charged moment of ambiguous ritual. Rendered in layered oil, the painting elicits a sense of concealment and emergence, its surface a palimpsest through which veins of red pulse like an underlying life-force. The figures, creaturely and theatrical, hover between visibility and withdrawal. One shifts, ear raised, as if listening - perhaps to the viewer, the space, or something more interior.