Original artwork description:

This bold and evocative artwork intensifies its predecessor’s themes of fragmentation and reconstruction with a powerful use of color. The central black-and-white portrait, featuring a young person with a shaved head, top model Augusta Alexander, is once again deconstructed through the strategic layering of rectangular segments. However, in this iteration, vivid red rectangles are superimposed on specific features: the eyes and mouth. The crimson hue injects a visceral, emotional intensity into the work, drawing immediate focus to these areas, which are typically associated with communication, perception, and emotion.

The sharpness of the red contrasts with the otherwise monochrome palette, adding a striking dynamism to the piece. The subject’s eyes, now glowing with a deep, almost haunting red, appear to confront the viewer with a mixture of vulnerability and defiance. The lips, equally highlighted in red, suggest both silence and speech, with the color evoking a sense of passion or urgency. This selective use of color draws attention to the most expressive parts of the human face, reinforcing themes of identity and self-perception.

The surrounding grey tones of the background, combined with the black border and textured layers, add depth and complexity to the artwork, allowing the red accents to stand out even more vividly. The collage-like composition, with its fragmented shapes and disrupted alignments, conveys a sense of inner conflict or fragmented identity, while the bold color choice suggests emotional intensity or psychological depth.

This mixed-media piece, blending photography, painting, and collage, invites viewers to explore ideas of human expression, the fragmentation of self, and how certain emotions or identities may feel hidden, yet powerfully present beneath the surface. The red accents transform the piece into a visually arresting statement on the tension between outward appearance and inner emotional worlds.

IMPORTANT: None of my artwork is perfect, they are organic, there are drops of paint, tears in the paper, waves, glue residues. They are original!

Jerome Cholet is a prize-winning artist based in Germany whose paintings have been exhibited internationally. Through his art, he endeavors to find, create, access, and inspire others with new perspectives. In the creation of his collages, Cholet most often employs imagery from newspaper covers and social media photographs. His distinctive pieces are completed with graffiti techniques using spray paint on canvas or MDF boards.

Materials used:

Acrylic Paint, Paper, Epoxy Resin

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