The black line drawings in Thenuwara’s Covert series, presents intertwining leitmotifs such as lotus buds, bodies, barbed wire, thorns, stupas, lion tails, weapons, vehicles, that the artist employs in his rhetoric against conflict. Untitled X considers the way collective violence puts pressure on the aesthetic field as visual culture is co-opted into militaristic iconography. But while the series works to reveal such strategies, it also strives to undermine them: to appropriate and reinvent such symbolism in protest against its weaponization and the profound violence that accompanies it.