Acrylic on cardboard

Signed on the back.

This piece, Man at Night 3, is the third in a series of three medium-format life drawings created with a toothbrush. This piece, along with the others, were created as part of my Honours body of work during my visual art studies in 2016. This piece explores the visceral quality of mark-making and shape-forming with the toothbrush, using acrylic bitumen to accentuate the textural topography of the work and the dark expressive nature of the aesthetic.

The idea being that everything is recorded on the surface, all of the things that went wrong, and all of the things that went better. In the same way, I see this analogous to life and making decisions; once made, they cannot be retracted.