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.
The mask in this case is a recent "troutmouth" or plastic surgery. Vulnerabilities have been known to seep out in very real ways here.
Vulnerabilities about aging, being attractive. Turning back time. All illusions.

Materials used:

oil painting on linen canvas

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