F8

Mixed media on wood panel
22 × 30 in.

F8 reads as both title and compression: “fate” reduced to a code, a shortcut, a signal. The work centers on a large head or portrait-like form, built through heavy layering, scraping, dripping, and repeated surface interruption.

The figure appears behind a bright blue band that suggests sunglasses, a visor, or some kind of obstructed sight. The face is present but unstable, assembled from broken color, exposed marks, and distressed passages. It does not resolve cleanly into a person so much as an encounter with a force or condition.

The wood panel gives the piece a blunt physicality. Paint, pastel-like marks, and scraped texture accumulate across the surface, turning the image into something between portrait, mask, icon, and warning. The title pulls the work toward fatalism, but the surface keeps resisting that simplicity.