The face seems to have been assembled from impact, pigment, and fragments of light. Its rough surface refuses the fiction of a flawless recovery. What has been suffered remains part of the person looking back at us.
Transfiguration does not always look like a radiant new beginning. Sometimes it is the harder accomplishment of recognizing yourself after everything that has altered you. The face endures; its history remains visible.
THE PAINTING UP CLOSE
The life of the surface.
Photographs of the painted work reveal its brushwork, layered pigment, and physical texture. Select any photograph to look closer.
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