X-Ray

Medium: Mixed Media on Wood
Size: 3ft x 2.5ft
Creation Date: 2023
Collection: Greyscale

X-Ray (2023) is an abstract dissection — a work that looks inward rather than outward, seeking essence beneath appearance. Created in mixed media on wood and part of both the Greyscale and Playful Abstraction Collections, this 36 x 30 inch painting reimagines the body, the self, and the unseen through structural play and tonal restraint.

The composition is composed of layered whites, chalky grays, and deep charcoal marks carved and brushed across a pale background. Overlapping outlines echo skeletal forms — spines, ribs, shadows of organs perhaps — though none are literal. The painting feels like a medical scan crossed with a dream, a visual record of something emotional rather than clinical.

I created X-Ray while thinking about vulnerability — about how much of who we are lives beneath the surface. This piece is not about diagnosis. It’s about honesty. It reveals not what’s broken, but what’s buried.

The work resonates with the anatomical abstraction of Jean-Michel Basquiat, especially his ability to make the internal external. Like Basquiat, I use line as exposure, not decoration.

X-Ray doesn’t ask you to understand the body. It invites you to feel it — in tension, in fragility, in truth.

As part of the Greyscale and Playful Abstraction Collections, this piece merges seriousness and experimentation — offering a view inward that is as layered as it is bold.