Work on Panel by Mark Westervelt: Me Myself and I

Four pale faces crowd together like a worried huddle on a sage-green ground.

This work on panel is by Mark Westervelt, and is ca. 2014. 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. Mostly, a cluster of cream faces, each with dark eyes and small mouths, tilts together at center. The sage and tan ground is scraped in vertical streaks, with small black curling marks at the sides and a pale blue patch upper left. It is 10 inches wide, 1.75 deep and 10 high.

Safety in numbers, and a collective frown.