Work on Paper by Mark Westervelt: From One Environment to Another I

A dark, rounded figure with crossed arms poses on a rocky block under a small cloud.

This work on paper is by Mark Westervelt, and is ca. 2013. It is paint on paper. 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. An unframed square work with vertical streaks of yellow, olive and cream. A solid maroon figure with folded arms stands on a gray, rocky block, a small orange cloud floating above the head. A tiny monogram sits at lower right. It is 9.5 inches wide and 10 high.

The cloud is small, the pose is large.