Centered on a calm, muted blue-gray field, a male figure stands in classic Vitruvian Man pose—arms and legs spread symmetrically, evoking Leonardo da Vinci’s ideal of human proportion—yet rendered entirely through thousands of small, directional ink strokes in walnut brown and crisp white. No solid outlines or filled shapes define the body; instead, dense layers of short dashes, hatches, and arrow-like marks overlap to build form, texture, and implied volume.
Heaviest concentrations cluster at torso, head, hands, and feet, creating near-opaque brown cores that suggest muscular mass and quiet power. From these dense passages, strokes radiate outward in every direction—pointing, exploding, trailing—like an energetic aura or inner force bursting free, especially vivid at extremities where marks fan into lighter, feathered bursts of white.
The cool blue-gray ground provides serene contrast to the warm brown-white figure, amplifying isolation and breathing room while letting the radiating strokes appear to vibrate against stillness.
Notice how the symmetrical Vitruvian pose draws the eye to harmonious proportion and centered calm, then scatters it along outward-pointing marks—creating rhythmic tension between classical order and dynamic eruption, containment and release.
Part of the Force of Nature series, this unique ink drawing channels raw gestural energy to reimagine the Renaissance ideal: not serene geometry, but primal vitality surging through perfect form—humanity as emergent, radiant force.
How does this poised yet exploding figure stir your sense of inner power, balanced harmony under pressure, or the poetry of classical proportion alive with restless energy?
Technical notes.
Unique drawing. Pen and ink on paper. Unframed dimensions: 9” high x 8-1/4” wide. Signed by the artist on the back, dated 2022. Frame not included.
Centered on a calm, muted blue-gray field, a male figure stands in classic Vitruvian Man pose—arms and legs spread symmetrically, evoking Leonardo da Vinci’s ideal of human proportion—yet rendered entirely through thousands of small, directional ink strokes in walnut brown and crisp white. No solid outlines or filled shapes define the body; instead, dense layers of short dashes, hatches, and arrow-like marks overlap to build form, texture, and implied volume.
Heaviest concentrations cluster at torso, head, hands, and feet, creating near-opaque brown cores that suggest muscular mass and quiet power. From these dense passages, strokes radiate outward in every direction—pointing, exploding, trailing—like an energetic aura or inner force bursting free, especially vivid at extremities where marks fan into lighter, feathered bursts of white.
The cool blue-gray ground provides serene contrast to the warm brown-white figure, amplifying isolation and breathing room while letting the radiating strokes appear to vibrate against stillness.
Notice how the symmetrical Vitruvian pose draws the eye to harmonious proportion and centered calm, then scatters it along outward-pointing marks—creating rhythmic tension between classical order and dynamic eruption, containment and release.
Part of the Force of Nature series, this unique ink drawing channels raw gestural energy to reimagine the Renaissance ideal: not serene geometry, but primal vitality surging through perfect form—humanity as emergent, radiant force.
How does this poised yet exploding figure stir your sense of inner power, balanced harmony under pressure, or the poetry of classical proportion alive with restless energy?
Technical notes.
Unique drawing. Pen and ink on paper. Unframed dimensions: 9” high x 8-1/4” wide. Signed by the artist on the back, dated 2022. Frame not included.
