From the vast, untouched white expanse of the paper, a towering humanoid figure strides forward in resolute profile, summoned entirely from restless torrents of black graphite slashes. No gentle contours define the form; instead, thousands of wild, diagonal strokes—some thick and heavy with crushing pressure, others frayed, splintered, and feather-light—bristle outward like coarse animal pelt rippling over raw muscle. Broad shoulders slope powerfully into thick arms that hang slightly away from the torso, elbows bent, fists loosely clenched in latent readiness. The head emerges as a rounded, shadowed mass crowned by jagged, upward-jutting spikes that evoke untamed, windswept hair whipping in an unseen gale. The torso tapers subtly toward narrow hips, then descends into sturdy legs that drive forward, terminating in ragged, pointed graphite bursts that barely suggest feet gripping invisible earth.
The marks vary dramatically in density and energy: densest clusters build near-opaque black in the shoulders, torso, and head, creating textured depth and implied volume through overlapping frenzy; lighter, skittering trails radiate outward from the core, dissolving into faint wisps that fray into the surrounding white void. This creates relentless directional momentum—the figure lunges leftward across the sheet in a strong diagonal thrust—while the empty background amplifies isolation, scale, and primal mystery. No facial features interrupt the anonymity; no eyes meet the viewer’s gaze. Only this raw, archetypal presence looms—monumental yet elusive, as though glimpsed in half-remembered dream or vanishing into shadowed woods.
The stark monochromatic palette heightens visceral urgency: graphite’s full tonal range—from velvety blacks to ghostly grays—conveys weight, motion, and untamed vitality without distraction. The surrounding white is active silence, cradling the figure’s solitary advance and turning the modest sheet into an arena of quiet menace and ancient power.
Notice how the dense, bristling core pulls the eye inward to the figure’s coiled strength, then propels it forward along the slashing diagonal of stride and radiating shards—creating rhythmic tension between contained force and explosive release, emergence and dissolution. The restless, uneven strokes infuse the form with breathing life, as if the wild energy summoned here strains against the paper’s edge.
Part of the "Force of Nature" series, this unique drawing channels raw, intuitive gesture to evoke the boundless vitality of the human spirit—everyman rendered not as portrait but as elemental stride: primal archetype distilled to pure kinetic eruption, anonymous yet fiercely alive. In its high-contrast ferocity and forward drive, the work invites you to feel the momentum—how does this shaggy, unstoppable advance resonate in your own body as determination, instinctual power, or the poetry of solitary motion through an indifferent world?
Technical notes.
Unique drawing. Graphite on paper. Unframed dimensions: 23-1/2” high x 18” wide. Signed by the artist on the back, dated 2021. Frame not included.
From the vast, untouched white expanse of the paper, a towering humanoid figure strides forward in resolute profile, summoned entirely from restless torrents of black graphite slashes. No gentle contours define the form; instead, thousands of wild, diagonal strokes—some thick and heavy with crushing pressure, others frayed, splintered, and feather-light—bristle outward like coarse animal pelt rippling over raw muscle. Broad shoulders slope powerfully into thick arms that hang slightly away from the torso, elbows bent, fists loosely clenched in latent readiness. The head emerges as a rounded, shadowed mass crowned by jagged, upward-jutting spikes that evoke untamed, windswept hair whipping in an unseen gale. The torso tapers subtly toward narrow hips, then descends into sturdy legs that drive forward, terminating in ragged, pointed graphite bursts that barely suggest feet gripping invisible earth.
The marks vary dramatically in density and energy: densest clusters build near-opaque black in the shoulders, torso, and head, creating textured depth and implied volume through overlapping frenzy; lighter, skittering trails radiate outward from the core, dissolving into faint wisps that fray into the surrounding white void. This creates relentless directional momentum—the figure lunges leftward across the sheet in a strong diagonal thrust—while the empty background amplifies isolation, scale, and primal mystery. No facial features interrupt the anonymity; no eyes meet the viewer’s gaze. Only this raw, archetypal presence looms—monumental yet elusive, as though glimpsed in half-remembered dream or vanishing into shadowed woods.
The stark monochromatic palette heightens visceral urgency: graphite’s full tonal range—from velvety blacks to ghostly grays—conveys weight, motion, and untamed vitality without distraction. The surrounding white is active silence, cradling the figure’s solitary advance and turning the modest sheet into an arena of quiet menace and ancient power.
Notice how the dense, bristling core pulls the eye inward to the figure’s coiled strength, then propels it forward along the slashing diagonal of stride and radiating shards—creating rhythmic tension between contained force and explosive release, emergence and dissolution. The restless, uneven strokes infuse the form with breathing life, as if the wild energy summoned here strains against the paper’s edge.
Part of the "Force of Nature" series, this unique drawing channels raw, intuitive gesture to evoke the boundless vitality of the human spirit—everyman rendered not as portrait but as elemental stride: primal archetype distilled to pure kinetic eruption, anonymous yet fiercely alive. In its high-contrast ferocity and forward drive, the work invites you to feel the momentum—how does this shaggy, unstoppable advance resonate in your own body as determination, instinctual power, or the poetry of solitary motion through an indifferent world?
Technical notes.
Unique drawing. Graphite on paper. Unframed dimensions: 23-1/2” high x 18” wide. Signed by the artist on the back, dated 2021. Frame not included.
