0515: What Liddy Said | Mixed-Media Original Painting

"When the words of someone you love destroys you, do you ever fully recover?"

Some wounds don't leave marks you can see. They settle into the body quietly, reshaping everything from the inside out. 0515: What Liddy Said is a painting about exactly that — the kind of hurt that arrives in language, from someone whose words were never supposed to cut.

This layered, dimensional mixed-media work is unlike anything else in the series. Acrylic sheets mounted on wood create a physical depth that mirrors the emotional layering at the heart of the piece — you are not simply looking at a surface, you are looking through one. And then another. Light shifts as you move, shadows appear and disappear, and the painting changes depending on where you stand and how you look. Nothing here is fixed. Nothing here is simple.

Soft grays and whites with black accents build the atmospheric foundation — quiet, almost clinical in their restraint. Against that stillness, red and blue text erupts across the surface with an urgency that feels handwritten, confessional, immediate. The words dance and tumble and press into one another, not quite legible, not quite private — somewhere between a journal entry and a scream.

At the center, an abstract red figure holds its ground amidst the textual storm. A presence. A person. Someone who received the words and is still standing — but only just.

0515: What Liddy Said does not offer resolution. It offers recognition. And sometimes, that is the more profound gift.

A rare and deeply personal work for collectors who seek art that meets them in the harder, truer places.

Medium: Acrylic Paint, Latex Paint & Oil Paint Markers on Acrylic Blocks mounted on Wood 

Dimensions: 15¼" H × 19" W × 4" D 

Unframed 

2024 Artist: Chris Hunt