Fragmented Portrait 951

Fragmented Portrait 951 16 x 20 x 0.5 inches (40 x 50 x 2 cm) Acrylic on Stretched Canvas.

As in stratigraphy, viewers are forced to interpret the fragmented missing forms of a face or figure to each visually compelling deviation from reality. 
Reality is personal to each viewer who assembles the whole, as in an excavation, fills in the missing fragmented parts to create their own picture of familiarity.
The textured, sculpted image creates a sense of inescapable brutality – leaving the viewer uncomfortable and shocked at first, but quickly becomes familiar with the subject, and its parts.
Fragmented reality portraits or landscape or figures, where it is no longer possible to accurately attribute identity and where the viewer is able to create their own and unique alternative narratives.
The painted canvas is full of textures of merging shapes, and colours, creating the feeling of fragmented reality. Each layer of colours and shapes also helps identify. Inadvertently also adding another thick layer of fragmentation to distancing reality further.
Excavation is a mesmerizing study of form and abstraction. The chaotic design allows the audience to 
immerse into a visual feast of puzzle forms that encourages an emotional reaction. The viewer to add the missing pieces to the jigsaw, forming their own personal private picture of reality.