Acrylic on canvas, stretched and ready to hang.
Signed on the front.
The artist and the subject develop a connection like no other. It may come about by chance, perhaps even secretly, with a quick sketch made in passing the concept was formed. The idea will prosper, ceremoniously, over a series of layers and processes. Whatever the circumstances are, the artist and the subject were then bound together by the portrait. Matika was conceptualized as a monotone portraiture work.