Face Behind the Bars

A stark, heavily worked portrait appears behind a grid of pale vertical and horizontal bars, its features emerging from dense black-and-white abrasion. The face is partly obscured by shadow, while small flashes of orange and red mark the brow, mouth, and cheek, giving the otherwise restricted composition a strained human presence. Rough grain, scraped surfaces, and uneven contours lend the work the raw immediacy of a distressed print or charcoal study.