Beard, Redacted

7" x 7"

Vintage paper and photos from the early 1900's

Title: Beard, Redacted

This striking mixed-media piece offers a contemporary dialogue with the formality of 19th-century portraiture. It features an antique cabinet card photograph of a distinguished, bearded gentleman, set within a collage of subtle ephemera and abstract mark-making.

The figure's identity is playfully yet decisively masked by a vibrant, horizontal slash of blue, yellow, and green acrylic across his eyes—a signature technique that explores the themes of anonymity and memory. The tension is further heightened by delicate vertical drips of cyan, magenta, and yellow paint running across the foreground, softening the formality of the portrait while introducing a modern, expressive flow. The addition of the "%5" button adds a cryptic layer of contemporary consumerism or calculation to the historical image.

This powerful and handsome piece is ideal for collectors who appreciate art that merges historical found objects with bold, abstract intervention.

• Medium: Mixed-Media Collage (Antique Cabinet Card, Acrylic Paint, Ephemera/Found Object)

• Themes: Anonymity, Memory Intervention, Formal Portraiture

• Key Visuals: Bearded Man Portrait, Horizontal Masking, Vertical Paint Drips