The Quiet Costume of Survival
B*TCH CHAOS · Work IV of VI
$175.00
Work
Performance layered over fracture. The Quiet Costume of Survival explores the contrast between external presentation and internal reality. Cubist faces, fractured planes, and overlapping masks convey the multiple personas we adopt for the world while preserving private inner truths. Each visual element functions as a structural component, expressing the tension between outward performance and inward authenticity.
Where Work III examined visibility and social pressure, this piece focuses on the personal negotiation of identity. The composition reflects how survival often requires adaptation and layering of roles, without offering resolution. The pressure of maintaining these masks is embedded in the structure itself.
Series Context
B*TCH CHAOS is a six-work sequence mapping psychological pressure as architecture. Each work isolates a distinct structure: constriction, visibility, fragmentation, recursion, collapse, residue. All pieces follow a unified visual methodology.
Individual works stand independently. Collectors acquiring multiple pieces can experience the full structural logic of the series. Work IV extends the series by investigating identity performance and the architecture of self-protection.
Printed on Japanese museum-grade matte paper using archival water-based inkjet processes. The non-reflective surface preserves tonal fidelity and material integrity.
Each print is produced individually. The artist’s digital signature is embedded within the image file.
Open edition. The format reflects the artist’s commitment to circulation and engagement during the formative phase of the practice. Early acquisition positions collectors within a foundational body of work as it enters wider visibility.
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This work is suited to collectors building positions in contemporary practices where psychological structure operates as formal subject; serialized image-making systems in which method supersedes individual gesture; and rigorously conceptual approaches to figurative abstraction.
It is not decorative. It does not resolve. It sustains pressure as both subject and method.
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