0515: Your Actions Say | Mixed-Media Original Painting

"You never gave us a chance. It's like you never wanted to last."

There are sentences that arrive quietly and stay forever. 0515: Your Actions Say is built around one of them.

This striking two-panel mixed-media work on wood commands attention the moment it enters a room — not through darkness or aggression, but through something more disarming. Vivid turquoise washes across both panels in luminous, layered waves, bringing an almost unexpected openness to a painting rooted in grief. Stenciled patterns drift across the surface like lace or frost, delicate and intricate against the bold geometric lines — blue chevrons, white angles, black and silver shapes — that cut through the composition with quiet authority.

And then the words.

Handwritten in loose, urgent script directly onto the surface, the phrase at the center of the piece reads like something said in a moment of finally letting go. Not shouted. Not performed. Just honest. The oil paint marker captures the intimacy of handwriting — the slight unevenness of a real hand, a real moment, a real feeling committed to wood and paint rather than kept inside.

Silver leaf punctuates the composition throughout, catching light and shifting as you move — luminous fragments that suggest something precious existing within something painful. Beneath the text, passages of red and white emerge through the turquoise layers, adding warmth and tension to an otherwise cool palette. The 0515 sequence appears to the left panel in its familiar script, grounding the piece within the larger emotional mythology of the series.

0515: Your Actions Say is a painting about the gap between what someone felt and what was ever given back. It is open, aching, and quietly beautiful.

For collectors who understand that the most powerful art is simply the most honest.

Medium: Acrylic Paint, Latex Paint, Spray Paint, Silver Leaf & Oil Paint Markers on Wooden Canvas 

Dimensions: 20¾" H × 23" W 

Unframed 

2024 Artist: Chris Hunt