Monotype From the Crucified Series by Ray Turner: Son of Man, Framed

A crown of thorns, and one eye looking out from the dark.

This framed monotype, Son of Man, comes from the Crucified Series by Ray Turner and is dated 4-29-2014. A monotype yields a single impression from a painted plate, and the image of Christ crowned with thorns has been a central subject of Western art for many centuries. Here the head is a near-black mass against a pale ground, shot through with a sickly olive green. White strokes pick out one brow, the nose and the lips. The crown is a few rough twists of line. Twenty-seven inches wide and 29.5 high.

The eye does not look away. It does not ask you to either.