This striking wooden sculpture presents a powerful deliberation on contemporary psychological fragmentation. The craftsmanship showcases both precision and expressiveness with a refined finish and elegant proportions.
The work's power lies in its material dialectic, creating a compelling visual tension between natural material and artistic intervention. The smooth elegant form of reductive abstraction, devoid of representational facial features, is broken by raised black lines criss-crossing the surface like tortured scars.
These function as both drawing and scarification: the splintered consciousness from digital overload and competing narratives defining contemporary subjectivity.
This tension between the haptic warmth of wood and the aggressive mark-making suggests fracture and disconnection - the breakdown of coherent thought and social unity.The sculpture is significant for collections focused on psychological figuration and craft-conceptual art suited for contemporary spaces.
Schizoid
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Unique, hand carved from Beech hardwood.
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Magnetically mounts onto a steel baseplate (optional).
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Raised dark lines are created from a bespoke process using dyed sawdust and resin filled by hand into shallow grooves in main body surface.
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