Oblivious-sided. Acrylic house paint and transferred ink on wood. 24″ x 24″. 2024.

Visual Description

The painting features a comic-style depiction of a dynamic scene with vivid elements. Against a textured background resembling newspaper print, the focal point is an exaggerated sound effect illustrated as the word “SPLAT!” in bold, red, capital letters near the top center. To the right, a black and gray hat appears suspended in mid-air, displaced by an unseen force. Just to its left is a white splatter resembling a snowball, accompanied by motion lines and puffy white clouds that convey rapid movement. Below the hat, a curved white cane with a red tip is shown in motion, emphasized by arcing motion lines. The newspaper-like background serves mainly as texture, but on closer examination some of the text is legible. These phrases draw on common expressions using words such as blind, see, and sight, often framing blindness as either a metaphor for ignorance or as something negative or ominous.