Original artwork description:

Title: Pretty As Me (Disjointed Reality Series)

Medium: Mixed Media Collage on Canvas
Dimensions: 36” H × 36” W × ¾” D
Series: Disjointed Reality
Year: 2023

Description:

Pretty As Me is a bold and architecturally layered work from my Disjointed Reality series—a piece that stands at the intersection of memory, structure, and emotional reconstruction. Built through overlapping strips of paint, collage, graphite, and intuitive gestures, this painting creates a complex vertical/horizontal rhythm, almost like the framework of a place half-remembered and half-invented.

Vibrant flashes of orange, gold, and lilac move through a foundation of blacks, greys, and warm neutrals, giving the work both luminosity and groundedness. These color interruptions feel like sudden moments of recognition within a shifting landscape—those unexpected pockets of clarity that rise up inside the chaos.

The title Pretty As Me is both ironic and tender. It hints at the complicated relationship we have with beauty, identity, and the parts of ourselves we allow to be seen. Beneath the structural lines and layered surfaces lies a story of rebuilding—of claiming the fragments as part of the whole, unapologetically.

This piece holds presence. It’s visually dynamic, emotionally textured, and designed to reward repeated looking.

Artist Statement:

Disjointed Reality examines how our internal worlds are pieced together from mismatched recollections, quiet truths, broken lines, and moments of clarity. My process includes layering, tearing, scraping, erasing, and rebuilding—mirroring the way the self evolves over time. These works honor both the unfinished and the fiercely honest.

Additional Details:

Original mixed media collage, not a print

Acrylic, graphite, painted papers, charcoal, and texture elements

Gallery-wrapped canvas with finished edges

Ready to hang

Signed on front; certificate of authenticity included

Collector’s Note:

With its striking color accents and richly layered surface, Pretty As Me brings depth, movement, and personality to contemporary interiors. It is ideal for collectors seeking a powerful abstract statement piece that blends emotional resonance with architectural structure.

This is a one of a kind artwork, created and painted by me. You will receive a certificate of authenticity on the back of your painting and it is ready to hang with hardware attached. It is sprayed with an archival coating.

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Even though I am new on Artfinder, I have sold and sent out over 2000 paintings since I first started selling online in 2009, and have shipped to countries such as Australia, Singapore, Dubai, France, UK and many others so you can purchase with confidence from me.

Materials used:

It is made with ink, oil, gouache, tempera paint along with polyurethane on watercolor paper, mixed media paper or canvas collaged onto a canvas.

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