Full Stop Tempera Expressionist Painting

A vertical totem of three pallid faces is bound together by a single red, spine-like column, while surrounding arms enact the choreography of denial—covering eyes, mouth, and ears as if censoring the self from within. The muted earth palette and scratchy, woven surface texture create a feeling of abrasion and containment, as though the image is being unearthed from memory rather than painted onto it. Repetition becomes a psychological echo: each visage mirrors the next, suggesting inherited silence and the way fear travels through bodies in patterns that feel ritualistic. In the stillness of the stacked heads, the work reads as an emblem of fractured perception—an intimate allegory of what we refuse to witness, speak, or receive.