Work on Panel by Mark Westervelt: Kontiki

Dancing figure whirls through a gold and black collage inside a heavy dark border.

This work on panel is by Mark Westervelt, and is ca. 2014. It is paint on panel. Faces and figures recur in his work as a way to express inner conditions of the self, and he has said he hopes viewers first think wow and then what. Visibly, a wide black frame surrounds a scuffed field of ochre, cream and black. A small figure in a feathered hat twirls at left, and curling black arcs swing across the right side. Torn scraps layer along the bottom. It is 11 inches wide, 1.5 deep and 14 high.

Plenty of motion, and a very serious frame for it.