Black Shard

50x90 cm - Oil, metallic acrylics and black ink on board The darkest, deepest Cutter I ever let live. This is not a painting. This is the battlefield where thousands of Mosaic tiles were born and died. Every cut, every slice, every shard I mined for the Mosaic series over one year left its scar on this wooden board. And when it could take no more, I turned that deeply scarred sacrificial board into a mother plate: black ink forced into every wound, layer after layer of transfer, paint, more ink, more scars, until the wood forgot it was ever wood. Then I drowned it in a dozen coats of mirror varnish until it reflected the void back at you. One night in the studio, it looked less like a cutter and more like a black hole wearing gold and bronze leaf armor. That’s when I knew it was finished. Delivered to its new keeper in Beijing on November 9, 2024. At the time, my 938th sale of original artwork. Paid in full, same day. Gone. There will never be another like it. Because I will never cut that many tiles the same way twice. BLACK SHARD – SOLD to a Private Collector in Beijing, 2024 ($8,000 USD equivalent) The night side of my Mosaic universe.