Incomplete Frame: The Beauty of Disruption

Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 4ft x 3ft
Creation Date: 2020

Incomplete Frame (2020) is part of my ReThink Collection, painted during a period of reflection on the structures we build around ourselves — both seen and unseen. Measuring 48 x 36 inches, this acrylic on canvas takes the motif of the frame and interrupts it, leaving deliberate gaps and unresolved edges.

The work plays with the tension of the unfinished. The viewer is left to complete the form, to fill in what is missing, or to sit within the discomfort of incompletion. The colors are muted, the gestures sparse, emphasizing the emptiness of the space where closure might have been expected.

This work finds a natural dialogue with Lucio Fontana, whose slashed canvases broke the illusion of the picture plane, revealing the space behind. Like Fontana, I am interested in the idea of rupture, of breaking through established forms. But where Fontana cut through to the void, Incomplete Frame stops short, suggesting rupture through absence rather than violence.

This painting became an emotional reflection of the year itself — a year of interrupted plans, fractured connections, and a global pause that left many of us sitting with the unfinished. The frame does not hold; it falters, reminding us that perfection is a fragile illusion.

Incomplete Frame is a meditation on vulnerability within structure, the beauty of what is left open, and the quiet rebellion of leaving things undone.