Details
Acrylic paints on Canvas Board
Size - 20 × 16 Inches
This piece comes with a certificate of authenticity.
Artist Description
This painting explores the quiet labour of emotional performance. Three masks hover in uneasy stillness — laughter, chaos, and sorrow — while an unseen hand reaches toward them, suggesting the moment a face is chosen, or perhaps assigned. The gesture hints at something larger than the individual: expectation, pressure, or the subtle forces that shape how we present ourselves to the world.
The work reflects the familiar act of rehearsing emotion. Many of us learn, consciously or not, which expressions are acceptable and which must remain hidden. Smiles are practised. Composure is constructed. Over time, the boundary between genuine feeling and performed emotion can begin to blur.
The distorted features and hollowed eyes create an image that is intentionally difficult to look at, yet strangely compelling. Viewers often describe an instinctive pull to keep looking, as if something within the work feels uncomfortably recognisable.
Prints available Soon
Details
Acrylic paints on Canvas Board
Size - 20 × 16 Inches
This piece comes with a certificate of authenticity.
Artist Description
This painting explores the quiet labour of emotional performance. Three masks hover in uneasy stillness — laughter, chaos, and sorrow — while an unseen hand reaches toward them, suggesting the moment a face is chosen, or perhaps assigned. The gesture hints at something larger than the individual: expectation, pressure, or the subtle forces that shape how we present ourselves to the world.
The work reflects the familiar act of rehearsing emotion. Many of us learn, consciously or not, which expressions are acceptable and which must remain hidden. Smiles are practised. Composure is constructed. Over time, the boundary between genuine feeling and performed emotion can begin to blur.
The distorted features and hollowed eyes create an image that is intentionally difficult to look at, yet strangely compelling. Viewers often describe an instinctive pull to keep looking, as if something within the work feels uncomfortably recognisable.
Prints available Soon