Muzzle The Demon

"You can bury the beast, bind its mouth, smear its face with shadow, but those eyes never close."
- Nat Berhe

A confrontational close-up portrait in which a glowering face materializes from a field of storm-gray and black, twin yellow-green eyes burning through layers of smeared white paint. A savage horizontal slash of red cuts across the figure's mouth like a wound or a restraint, simultaneously gagging and anointing. The work pits the primal against the controlled, asking whether the demon is ever truly muzzled or merely waiting.

Medium: Oil on Canvas
Size: 36" x 48"