Your anger is growing

This work is part of the Bearded Men series, a series of portraits of – who would have thought! – men featuring (a lot of) facial hair. It is also a study of how a beard can symbolize many things – manhood, growth, wisdom, longing… Furthermore, the series shows stations of a relationship in a surrealisticly symbolic way.

Some thoughts about the piece:

• visual representation of growing anger
• anger is growing out of the beard, ergo out of the male self
• anger can be beautiful
• anger can produce something
• anger can alter things

The journey of the piece:

This piece traveled to Skopje, Macedonia, in summer 2016 and was shown at Paratissima 3. In spring 2017, a photograph of the piece was printed on a large tarpaulin and could be visited (amongst other great artwork) in an open air installation by Art in Open Roomz.