Rage is the embodiment of years spent silencing an internal roar. It captures that moment when pressure builds so long that silence becomes a scream — but only on the inside. As a veteran and survivor of trauma, I often had to mask my emotions: no room for fury, grief, or even honest frustration. This painting is my unfiltered release — a visceral purge of all the fire I wasn’t allowed to show. It’s a mirror of how rage simmers in the soul, waiting for a safe place to burn.
The painting uses a bold and emotional color palette: raw crimson reds swirl across the figure’s body, intensifying the emotion and draping the subject in symbolic violence and pain. Thick, energetic brushwork and heavy shadowing define a screaming face with bulging eyes and wild hair, evoking classical Baroque drama with a contemporary, expressionist twist. The muscular figure appears both human and mythic, captured mid-eruption, rendered in visceral tones of flesh, burgundy, and black. The background’s cool blues and greens swirl like storm clouds, giving contrast to the searing figure and amplifying the turmoil within. The style is deeply expressive, with painterly textures that feel sculpted rather than simply painted — every stroke a declaration of unspoken fury.
Rage is the embodiment of years spent silencing an internal roar. It captures that moment when pressure builds so long that silence becomes a scream — but only on the inside. As a veteran and survivor of trauma, I often had to mask my emotions: no room for fury, grief, or even honest frustration. This painting is my unfiltered release — a visceral purge of all the fire I wasn’t allowed to show. It’s a mirror of how rage simmers in the soul, waiting for a safe place to burn.
The painting uses a bold and emotional color palette: raw crimson reds swirl across the figure’s body, intensifying the emotion and draping the subject in symbolic violence and pain. Thick, energetic brushwork and heavy shadowing define a screaming face with bulging eyes and wild hair, evoking classical Baroque drama with a contemporary, expressionist twist. The muscular figure appears both human and mythic, captured mid-eruption, rendered in visceral tones of flesh, burgundy, and black. The background’s cool blues and greens swirl like storm clouds, giving contrast to the searing figure and amplifying the turmoil within. The style is deeply expressive, with painterly textures that feel sculpted rather than simply painted — every stroke a declaration of unspoken fury.
