Title: Please Maintain Eye Contact
Year Completed: 2026
Size: 40 x 60 in
Technical: Mixed Media/Digital Psychological Portrait
Price: $3,700

Description
Museum-Grade Giclée on Hahnemühle Photo Rag 308 gsm
Limited Edition: Signed with a Certificate of Authenticity included
This work captures a profound emotional contradiction of beauty, control, fracture, and psychological tension. The split face creates an immediate confrontation between the performed self and the ruptured self, while the mirrored presentation suggests self-surveillance and identity fragmentation. I have used a soft blur to evoke dream logic rather than horror, allowing the background phrases “Are you comfortable?”, “You look normal.”, and “Please behave naturally.” to function as polite but coercive social commands. The piece explores the violence hidden within social politeness. The viewer is invited to participate in a ritual of normalcy remaining calm and acceptable while the portrait reflects the private fracture beneath that public composure. In this context, comfort becomes surveillance, and normality becomes theater.