Derek Fordjour's *Numbers* layers acrylic, charcoal, and oil pastel over newspaper mounted on canvas, a process that roots the work in the rhythms and remnants of everyday life. The textured foundation of printed newsprint bleeds through the composition, merging the language of mass media with Fordjour's bold, gestural mark-making. The interplay of materials creates a sense of accumulated history, where each medium adds its own visual weight to the dialogue between image and information.