On a clean white field, a male head and upper shoulders emerge as a dense, shadowy apparition built entirely from thousands of short, overlapping graphite strokes. Deepest pressure concentrates in the core—velvety blacks mass at the center of the face, neck, and brow, creating strong implied volume and brooding depth through relentless cross-hatching.
Toward the edges, strokes thin and open: sparser diagonal and horizontal marks in the face, vertical emphasis in the neck and shoulders, tapering downward until the form softly dissolves into the surrounding paper. No distinct facial features resolve—only rhythmic directional lines suggest eyes, nose, and mouth through density alone, leaving the presence ghostly, intense, and veiled.
The stark monochromatic palette relies on graphite’s full range: crushing blacks in the heart contrast faint silvery traces at the periphery, turning the small sheet into a study of emergence and fading. Vast negative space amplifies isolation and quiet power.
Notice how the heavy central buildup draws the eye inward to shadowed intensity, then releases it along thinning, dissolving trails—creating rhythmic tension between concentrated presence and gentle vanishing.
Part of the Force of Nature series, this unique drawing channels raw gestural energy to evoke the human spirit as emergent shadow: not literal portrait but primal force—consciousness distilled to urgent marks, fiercely alive yet already slipping toward silence.
How does this graphite specter—dense at the core, fraying at the edges—stir your sense of inner depth, fragile identity, or the poetry of a face that exists only through insistent line?
Technical notes.
Unique drawing. Graphite on paper. Unframed dimensions: 14” high x 11” wide. Signed by the artist on the back, dated 2021. Frame not included.
On a clean white field, a male head and upper shoulders emerge as a dense, shadowy apparition built entirely from thousands of short, overlapping graphite strokes. Deepest pressure concentrates in the core—velvety blacks mass at the center of the face, neck, and brow, creating strong implied volume and brooding depth through relentless cross-hatching.
Toward the edges, strokes thin and open: sparser diagonal and horizontal marks in the face, vertical emphasis in the neck and shoulders, tapering downward until the form softly dissolves into the surrounding paper. No distinct facial features resolve—only rhythmic directional lines suggest eyes, nose, and mouth through density alone, leaving the presence ghostly, intense, and veiled.
The stark monochromatic palette relies on graphite’s full range: crushing blacks in the heart contrast faint silvery traces at the periphery, turning the small sheet into a study of emergence and fading. Vast negative space amplifies isolation and quiet power.
Notice how the heavy central buildup draws the eye inward to shadowed intensity, then releases it along thinning, dissolving trails—creating rhythmic tension between concentrated presence and gentle vanishing.
Part of the Force of Nature series, this unique drawing channels raw gestural energy to evoke the human spirit as emergent shadow: not literal portrait but primal force—consciousness distilled to urgent marks, fiercely alive yet already slipping toward silence.
How does this graphite specter—dense at the core, fraying at the edges—stir your sense of inner depth, fragile identity, or the poetry of a face that exists only through insistent line?
Technical notes.
Unique drawing. Graphite on paper. Unframed dimensions: 14” high x 11” wide. Signed by the artist on the back, dated 2021. Frame not included.
