Silent One, 2025

7.5" x 6.25" acrylic on board.

Silent One, a face holds other faces behind its teeth and eyes, suggesting a consciousness crowded with voices yet unable—or unwilling—to speak them. The expression is neither screaming nor calm, but suspended in a tense stillness. This is silence as containment rather than absence: the weight of unspoken thoughts pressing outward against flesh. The work gestures toward repression, social masking, and the uneasy coexistence of inner multiplicity and outward composure.