Protocol: Blue

"Authority wears a face, or it wears the place where a face used to be."
- Nat Berhe

A commanding square portrait of a figure in deep cobalt-blue uniform holding a walkie-talkie in a red-gloved hand, bathed entirely in a saturated blue field. White paint streaks erase and rebuild the face simultaneously, sunglasses, red lips, a flash of signal, rendering the subject both hyperreal and ghost-like. The painting interrogates the aesthetics of power: who gets to communicate, who gets to be seen, and what the uniform conceals.

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