On warm, pale beige paper, a male face confronts the viewer in near-frontal view, constructed entirely from hundreds of small, irregular angular fragments—mostly triangles, polygons, and wedge-like shards that interlock like a gently shattered mosaic of low-poly relief.
No smooth contours or traditional shading define the features. Each shard is meticulously hatched with fine graphite lines, creating subtle tonal gradients from light silvery gray to moderately dark values. Density is highest at the core—brow, bridge of nose, eyes, and mouth—where overlapping fragments build stronger contrast and implied volume, making central features feel slightly more cohesive. Around the edges (temples, cheeks, jawline), fragmentation intensifies: shards scatter and thin, fraying into delicate, open hatching that dissolves softly into the exposed paper, leaving the head hovering between wholeness and gentle disintegration.
The restrained monochromatic palette—elegant grays against warm beige ground—evokes a soft, sepia-like atmosphere. Vast negative space amplifies quiet isolation and contemplative presence: the face feels both resilient and fragile, a fractured yet unified self suspended in stillness.
Notice how denser central shards draw the eye inward to shadowed facial structure and quiet gaze, then release it along outward-scattering fragments—creating rhythmic tension between underlying unity and surface dissolution, coherence and break.
Part of the Force of Nature series, this unique drawing channels meticulous, obsessive gesture to reimagine the portrait as emergent force: not realistic likeness but primal consciousness assembled from angular repetition—intensely present yet haunted by fragmentation.
How does this mosaic of hatched shards—cohesive at the core, dissolving at the edges—stir your sense of fractured identity, quiet resilience, or the poetry of a face built from deliberate breaks and persistent line?
Technical notes.
Unique drawing, graphite on paper. Unframed dimensions: 14” high x 11” wide. Signed by the artist on the front, dated 2019. Frame not included.
On warm, pale beige paper, a male face confronts the viewer in near-frontal view, constructed entirely from hundreds of small, irregular angular fragments—mostly triangles, polygons, and wedge-like shards that interlock like a gently shattered mosaic of low-poly relief.
No smooth contours or traditional shading define the features. Each shard is meticulously hatched with fine graphite lines, creating subtle tonal gradients from light silvery gray to moderately dark values. Density is highest at the core—brow, bridge of nose, eyes, and mouth—where overlapping fragments build stronger contrast and implied volume, making central features feel slightly more cohesive. Around the edges (temples, cheeks, jawline), fragmentation intensifies: shards scatter and thin, fraying into delicate, open hatching that dissolves softly into the exposed paper, leaving the head hovering between wholeness and gentle disintegration.
The restrained monochromatic palette—elegant grays against warm beige ground—evokes a soft, sepia-like atmosphere. Vast negative space amplifies quiet isolation and contemplative presence: the face feels both resilient and fragile, a fractured yet unified self suspended in stillness.
Notice how denser central shards draw the eye inward to shadowed facial structure and quiet gaze, then release it along outward-scattering fragments—creating rhythmic tension between underlying unity and surface dissolution, coherence and break.
Part of the Force of Nature series, this unique drawing channels meticulous, obsessive gesture to reimagine the portrait as emergent force: not realistic likeness but primal consciousness assembled from angular repetition—intensely present yet haunted by fragmentation.
How does this mosaic of hatched shards—cohesive at the core, dissolving at the edges—stir your sense of fractured identity, quiet resilience, or the poetry of a face built from deliberate breaks and persistent line?
Technical notes.
Unique drawing, graphite on paper. Unframed dimensions: 14” high x 11” wide. Signed by the artist on the front, dated 2019. Frame not included.
