Cobwebs of Conscience
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October 8, 2025
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This haunting pen-and-ink drawing by Sadequain, from his Cobweb Series (circa 1958), is one of his most symbolic and socially charged works. The figure—entangled in an intricate web—appears immobilized, its limbs heavy and distorted, as if trapped by invisible threads of decay and corruption. The cobweb motif, a recurring symbol in Sadequain’s art, represents the moral and intellectual stagnation of society.
Rendered entirely in crosshatched black lines, the work conveys both fragility and suffocation. The sprawling webs surrounding the human form blur the line between victim and captor, suggesting how people themselves contribute to the entanglements that paralyze their spirit.
Through this stark composition, Sadequain critiques the complacency and moral decay that reduce humanity to inertia. It is a visual allegory of a civilization ensnared in its own contradictions—brilliant in form yet trapped in self-inflicted darkness.
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