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Date
April 2026
Location
Glassell School of Art
This mixed-media painting centers on an enormous head-like form emerging from an unstable field of color, drips, fragments, and tangled black lines. The face is not clearly rendered; it appears assembled from scattered memories, blocked passages, and emotional debris. Its pale, hollow eye-like spaces and fractured surface give it the feeling of a self struggling to remain visible inside overwhelming psychological noise.
Around the figure, black looping lines operate like a damaged nervous system or a network of cracks. They divide the surrounding space into compartments, suggesting rooms, windows, mental files, or episodes of memory that cannot be organized into a coherent whole. The pale blue background gives the work a deceptive openness, but the crowded marks and enclosed central form make the image feel trapped and internally congested.
The bright reds and pinks concentrated inside the face suggest injury, exposure, and unresolved emotional intensity. Yellow and neon green flashes introduce a restless, almost electrical energy, while the heavy white areas resemble erasure, bandaging, or attempts to cover what remains painful. Small collage-like fragments appear embedded in the surrounding surface, reinforcing the sense that the figure is being constructed from broken records of experience.
The central shape can be read as both a face and an enclosure: a mind that has become its own room. Rather than showing trauma as a single event, the painting suggests a psychological condition in which identity is continually interrupted by fragments of the past. The figure seems to exist behind its own memories, surrounded by pathways that loop back into confinement.
The painting reads as a portrait of dissociation and internal captivity—a person still present, but partially buried inside the architecture of what they cannot forget.


