A huge grin surfaces out of a storm of white drips, splatter, and crumpled texture — joy assembled from chaos rather than calm. Step back and it's unmistakably a face, all open mouth and squinting eye; lean in and it dissolves into pure gesture and accident. That's the trick of the piece: it holds happiness and disorder in the same breath, the way a real laugh does. Raw, immediate, and impossible not to smile back at.
Private Collection.
A huge grin surfaces out of a storm of white drips, splatter, and crumpled texture — joy assembled from chaos rather than calm. Step back and it's unmistakably a face, all open mouth and squinting eye; lean in and it dissolves into pure gesture and accident. That's the trick of the piece: it holds happiness and disorder in the same breath, the way a real laugh does. Raw, immediate, and impossible not to smile back at.
Private Collection.