The Weight of Becoming
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description: This artwork can be purchased Exclusively from the Mabazza Foundation The Weight Of Becoming Artwork Details Medium: Oil on Canvas Support: Mounted on supported wooden frame. Dimensions: 30 × 22 inches Price: $1,400 Edition: One of a kind One of a kind, limited prints may be available. Categories: Oil • Everyday Life • Conceptual • Pop Culture • Fine Art • Abstract • Expressionism • Impressionism About This Artwork Artwork description A solitary young man sits low against an abstract field of ochre, rust, crimson, charcoal, and fractured blue. His muscular body suggests strength, yet his lowered head, hanging hands, and folded posture reveal exhaustion rather than triumph. Gold chains rest heavily across his chest, catching the muted light while marks of color move across his skin as though the surrounding painting has begun to claim him. The figure occupies the uneasy space between resilience and collapse. Thick, restless brushwork surrounds him, dissolving the distinction between body, floor, and atmosphere. Warm gold rises behind him like fading fire, while darker passages gather around his legs, grounding the composition in silence and emotional weight. Artist statement The Weight of Becoming Considers the private cost of appearing strong. The figure possesses the architecture traditionally associated with power: a muscular body, commanding jewelry, dark clothing, and a physical presence that fills the canvas. Yet none of these elements protect him from fatigue. His head lowers. His hands fall open. The body that might ordinarily be presented as victorious instead becomes a vessel carrying something unseen. I wanted the paint surrounding him to feel less like a background and more like an emotional climate. Ochre and gold suggest ambition, heat, and transformation, while the broken reds, blues, and charcoal passages speak to conflict, injury, memory, and survival. Flecks of color move across his skin, visually binding him to the world around him. He is not stand…
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