On a vast field of untouched white paper, a female head emerges in three-quarter view as a dense, vibrating cloud of graphite marks. Thousands of short, rapid, overlapping strokes—mostly diagonal and vertical—build restless energy across the entire face.
No outlines or modeled features exist. Form arises purely through accumulation: heaviest cross-hatching and overlapping clusters create near-opaque black zones suggesting brow, cheekbone, jaw, and shadowed side of the face, while lighter, more open strokes thin outward, fraying into delicate, feathered trails that dissolve softly into blank space.
The stark contrast between crushing velvety blacks at the core and ghostly silvery wisps at the edges gives the portrait an explosive yet fragile presence—intensely concentrated yet on the verge of scattering into silence. Vast negative space amplifies isolation and quiet power.
Notice how the densest central hatching pulls the eye inward toward brooding intensity and implied volume, then scatters it along thinning, dissolving trails—creating rhythmic tension between fierce buildup and gentle vanishing.
Part of the Force of Nature series, this early graphite drawing channels raw, obsessive gesture to evoke feminine spirit as emergent force: not literal likeness but primal vibration—consciousness distilled to urgent marks, fiercely alive yet haunted by erasure.
How does this graphite storm of a face—dense and shadowed at the center, fraying into nothing at the edges—stir your sense of inner depth, restless presence, or the poetry of identity forged through relentless, dissolving line?
Technical notes.
Unique drawing, graphite on paper. Unframed dimensions: 14” high x 11” wide. Signed by the artist on the back, dated 2015. Frame not included.
On a vast field of untouched white paper, a female head emerges in three-quarter view as a dense, vibrating cloud of graphite marks. Thousands of short, rapid, overlapping strokes—mostly diagonal and vertical—build restless energy across the entire face.
No outlines or modeled features exist. Form arises purely through accumulation: heaviest cross-hatching and overlapping clusters create near-opaque black zones suggesting brow, cheekbone, jaw, and shadowed side of the face, while lighter, more open strokes thin outward, fraying into delicate, feathered trails that dissolve softly into blank space.
The stark contrast between crushing velvety blacks at the core and ghostly silvery wisps at the edges gives the portrait an explosive yet fragile presence—intensely concentrated yet on the verge of scattering into silence. Vast negative space amplifies isolation and quiet power.
Notice how the densest central hatching pulls the eye inward toward brooding intensity and implied volume, then scatters it along thinning, dissolving trails—creating rhythmic tension between fierce buildup and gentle vanishing.
Part of the Force of Nature series, this early graphite drawing channels raw, obsessive gesture to evoke feminine spirit as emergent force: not literal likeness but primal vibration—consciousness distilled to urgent marks, fiercely alive yet haunted by erasure.
How does this graphite storm of a face—dense and shadowed at the center, fraying into nothing at the edges—stir your sense of inner depth, restless presence, or the poetry of identity forged through relentless, dissolving line?
Technical notes.
Unique drawing, graphite on paper. Unframed dimensions: 14” high x 11” wide. Signed by the artist on the back, dated 2015. Frame not included.
