Geometric Gaze

“The face reduced to angles. And somehow more present for it.”

Geometric Gaze applies the vocabulary of hard-edge abstraction to the portrait, a formal decision with a long precedent that JB approaches with fresh specificity. Faces here are rendered entirely in planar geometry: triangles, trapezoids, and sharp diagonals standing in for the curves of the human face. The palette is limited and deliberate, three to four colors per work, each plane a single flat tone without internal gradation. What the series demonstrates is that legibility does not require illusionism. Reduce a face to its essential angles and it remains, stubbornly, a face.