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The Weight Within (2025)Acrylic painting
by Emmanuel Akolo
£655.1
Original artwork description
The Weight Within explores the intimate and often unspoken confrontation between the self and its reflection. The composition centers on a figure gazing into a mirror, capturing a moment that transcends a simple surface image to become a quiet reckoning with internal emotional weight. The interplay of dramatic lighting and weary posture suggests an internal storm carefully hidden beneath a composed exterior, mirroring the complex duality of human strength and vulnerability. This work serves as a window into the silent battles fought in solitude, where the act of looking becomes a deep interrogation of one’s own lived experience.
The painting utilizes bold contrasts and muted shadows to define a space where identity, memory, and emotion intersect. By placing the viewer behind the subject, looking into the mirror alongside him, I aim to evoke the vulnerability inherent in facing one’s own reflection honestly. This work honors the profound resilience required to address unresolved internal questions when no one is watching. The Weight Within is a tribute to the dignity of introspection, illustrating that the most significant growth often occurs in the private thresholds of self-discovery and honest self-appraisal.
Materials used:
Acrylic On Canvas
Details:
- Acrylic painting on Canvas
- One of a kind artwork
- Size: 60.96 x 45.72 x 2.54cm (unframed) / 60.96 x 45.72cm (actual image size)
- Signed on the front
- Style: Expressive and gestural
- Subject: People and portraits
Tags:
#man#reflection#mirror#young black#vulnerability#fears#introspection#inner struggle#boy child
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Original artwork description
The Weight Within explores the intimate and often unspoken confrontation between the self and its reflection. The composition centers on a figure gazing into a mirror, capturing a moment that transcends a simple surface image to become a quiet reckoning with internal emotional weight. The interplay of dramatic lighting and weary posture suggests an internal storm carefully hidden beneath a composed exterior, mirroring the complex duality of human strength and vulnerability. This work serves as a window into the silent battles fought in solitude, where the act of looking becomes a deep interrogation of one’s own lived experience.
The painting utilizes bold contrasts and muted shadows to define a space where identity, memory, and emotion intersect. By placing the viewer behind the subject, looking into the mirror alongside him, I aim to evoke the vulnerability inherent in facing one’s own reflection honestly. This work honors the profound resilience required to address unresolved internal questions when no one is watching. The Weight Within is a tribute to the dignity of introspection, illustrating that the most significant growth often occurs in the private thresholds of self-discovery and honest self-appraisal.
Materials used:
Acrylic On Canvas
Details:
- Acrylic painting on Canvas
- One of a kind artwork
- Size: 60.96 x 45.72 x 2.54cm (unframed) / 60.96 x 45.72cm (actual image size)
- Signed on the front
- Style: Expressive and gestural
- Subject: People and portraits
Tags:
#man#reflection#mirror#young black#vulnerability#fears#introspection#inner struggle#boy child