Original artwork description:

Expressionist oil painting mainly painted with palette knife, on a rollered slate black background.

This is the latest in the "Mask" series of oil paintings.

We all wear masks in our daily lives to protect our vulnerabilities, but if if you look closely enough these vulnerabilities are always seeping out, the mask is always, sometimes imperceptibly, slipping to reveal more than we would like.

In this painting, the vulnerabilities are part of the mask as if the model is wearing his vulnerabilities on the outside not trying to keep them in.
They are there for all to see.

If people only knew... the real me.

Materials used:

oil painting on linen canvas

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