On pristine white paper, a female head confronts the viewer in near-frontal view, conjured entirely from a turbulent storm of graphite hatching. Thousands of short, rapid, multidirectional strokes—diagonal slashes, cross-hatching, vertical builds—overlap in frenzied density across the face and upper neck.
No clean outlines or realistic modeling exist. Form emerges through sheer accumulation: heaviest, near-opaque black clusters concentrate at the center—brow, cheeks, nose bridge, shadowed eyes—creating brooding volume and intense depth. Lighter, more open marks radiate outward, thinning into feathered, fraying trails that dissolve softly into blank space, leaving the figure hovering between powerful presence and imminent scattering.
Features remain elusive ghosts: eyes suggested by darker convergences, mouth by a subtle horizontal break, expression veiled yet quietly commanding. The stark monochromatic palette and expansive negative space heighten isolation, urgency, and fragile monumentality.
Notice how the dense central frenzy pulls the eye inward to shadowed intensity and implied gaze, then scatters it along thinning, restless trails—creating rhythmic tension between fierce buildup and gentle vanishing, containment and release.
Part of the Force of Nature series, this unique drawing channels raw, obsessive gesture to evoke the human spirit as emergent force: not literal likeness but primal vibration—consciousness distilled to urgent marks, intensely alive yet haunted by dissolution.
How does this graphite tempest of a face—dense and shadowed at the core, fraying into silence at the edges—stir your sense of inner turmoil, quiet power, 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 2020. Frame not included.
On pristine white paper, a female head confronts the viewer in near-frontal view, conjured entirely from a turbulent storm of graphite hatching. Thousands of short, rapid, multidirectional strokes—diagonal slashes, cross-hatching, vertical builds—overlap in frenzied density across the face and upper neck.
No clean outlines or realistic modeling exist. Form emerges through sheer accumulation: heaviest, near-opaque black clusters concentrate at the center—brow, cheeks, nose bridge, shadowed eyes—creating brooding volume and intense depth. Lighter, more open marks radiate outward, thinning into feathered, fraying trails that dissolve softly into blank space, leaving the figure hovering between powerful presence and imminent scattering.
Features remain elusive ghosts: eyes suggested by darker convergences, mouth by a subtle horizontal break, expression veiled yet quietly commanding. The stark monochromatic palette and expansive negative space heighten isolation, urgency, and fragile monumentality.
Notice how the dense central frenzy pulls the eye inward to shadowed intensity and implied gaze, then scatters it along thinning, restless trails—creating rhythmic tension between fierce buildup and gentle vanishing, containment and release.
Part of the Force of Nature series, this unique drawing channels raw, obsessive gesture to evoke the human spirit as emergent force: not literal likeness but primal vibration—consciousness distilled to urgent marks, intensely alive yet haunted by dissolution.
How does this graphite tempest of a face—dense and shadowed at the core, fraying into silence at the edges—stir your sense of inner turmoil, quiet power, 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 2020. Frame not included.
