Work on Panel by Mark Westervelt: In the Other Corner of the Sky

Brown splotches pile up at right into a face that refuses to settle.

This work on panel is by Mark Westervelt. It is paint on panel. Because the skins are peeled up, anything painted on them is reversed, so he must write text backwards and paint a figure facing right if it is meant to look left. A square work on a cream ground with streaks of white and pale blue. A cluster of dark brown and black blots at right forms rough shapes of eyes and a nose. It is 8 inches wide and 8 high.

A face that emerges only to the patient squinter.