Work on Panel by Mark Westervelt: Written on Your Face

Round freckled face is lost in a blizzard of black capital letters.

This work on panel is by Mark Westervelt, and is ca. 2014. It is paint on panel. He began using dried paint after drips on a protective plastic sheet struck him as wasteful, and he glued the chips onto his canvas to add texture and found faces in them. Mid-sheet, a large rounded face in tan and brown with heavy-lidded eyes, a long nose and a downturned mouth sits against a white ground. Bold black letters fill every inch around it, running in different directions like a crossword. It is 10 inches wide, 1.75 deep and 10 high.

Surrounded by words, and apparently not reading any of them.