On pristine white paper, a tall, male figure stands in subtle contrapposto—weight shifted to one leg, hips and shoulders gently opposed—emerging solely from thousands of short, dense, overlapping graphite strokes. No outlines or modeled anatomy define the form; instead, frenetic horizontal and multidirectional hatching builds near-opaque black clusters at the torso, shoulders, and head, suggesting broad muscular presence and shadowed depth through sheer accumulation.
Toward the limbs and edges, marks thin and scatter: lighter, more open dashes fray into feathered trails that dissolve rapidly into blank space, leaving the figure hovering between solid emergence and imminent fragmentation. The head remains an anonymous mass—features implied only by density, never resolved—amplifying archetypal isolation.
The stark monochromatic palette and vast negative space heighten quiet monumentality and existential tension: the figure feels both defiant and fragile, a human silhouette assembled stroke by obsessive stroke, yet always on the verge of unraveling into silence.
Notice how heavy central hatching pulls the eye inward to concentrated energy and implied volume, then releases it along thinning, dissolving limbs—creating rhythmic tension between fierce buildup and gentle vanishing, presence and absence.
Part of the Force of Nature series, this unique drawing channels raw gestural labor to evoke the human spirit as emergent force: not portrait but primal archetype—standing man distilled to vibrating marks, intensely alive yet haunted by erasure.
How does this hatching-born figure—dense at the core, fraying at the edges—stir your sense of quiet endurance, fragile identity, or the poetry of a body held together by relentless line alone?
Technical notes.
Unique drawing, graphite on paper. Unframed dimensions: 14” high x 11” wide. Signed by the artist on the back, dated 2016. Frame not included.
On pristine white paper, a tall, male figure stands in subtle contrapposto—weight shifted to one leg, hips and shoulders gently opposed—emerging solely from thousands of short, dense, overlapping graphite strokes. No outlines or modeled anatomy define the form; instead, frenetic horizontal and multidirectional hatching builds near-opaque black clusters at the torso, shoulders, and head, suggesting broad muscular presence and shadowed depth through sheer accumulation.
Toward the limbs and edges, marks thin and scatter: lighter, more open dashes fray into feathered trails that dissolve rapidly into blank space, leaving the figure hovering between solid emergence and imminent fragmentation. The head remains an anonymous mass—features implied only by density, never resolved—amplifying archetypal isolation.
The stark monochromatic palette and vast negative space heighten quiet monumentality and existential tension: the figure feels both defiant and fragile, a human silhouette assembled stroke by obsessive stroke, yet always on the verge of unraveling into silence.
Notice how heavy central hatching pulls the eye inward to concentrated energy and implied volume, then releases it along thinning, dissolving limbs—creating rhythmic tension between fierce buildup and gentle vanishing, presence and absence.
Part of the Force of Nature series, this unique drawing channels raw gestural labor to evoke the human spirit as emergent force: not portrait but primal archetype—standing man distilled to vibrating marks, intensely alive yet haunted by erasure.
How does this hatching-born figure—dense at the core, fraying at the edges—stir your sense of quiet endurance, fragile identity, or the poetry of a body held together by relentless line alone?
Technical notes.
Unique drawing, graphite on paper. Unframed dimensions: 14” high x 11” wide. Signed by the artist on the back, dated 2016. Frame not included.
