Disagreement: Fractures Within the Frame

Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 4ft x 4ft
Creation Date: 2020

Disagreement (2020) is part of my Existential Relationship Series, a collection born from reflecting on the subtle and overt tensions that define human relationships. Created in acrylic on canvas, this 48 x 48 inch work uses minimalist forms and restrained gestures to capture the silent fractures within spaces we often mistake as whole.

Through overlapping planes of muted grays, blacks, and deep reds, Disagreement explores the psychological architectures of conflict. The geometry does not collide, but rather strains against itself, leaning into the unspoken. Negative space plays an active role, becoming the void into which words and emotions fall. The piece resists overt dramatization, instead embracing the slow burn of misalignment and quiet rupture.

I found myself in dialogue with the works of Agnes Martin, whose grid-based paintings evoke subtle emotional and spiritual vibrations beneath their orderly surfaces. Like Martin, I’m drawn to restraint, to the nuances of control and stillness. But where Martin’s work offers a meditative calm, Disagreement teeters on the edge of fracture, leaving the viewer with a sense of unresolved tension.

In this painting, the frame itself becomes a contested space — a stage where difference, discord, and distance coexist, held in fragile equilibrium. Disagreement invites the viewer to sit within these ruptures, to witness the beauty in fracture.