Contra Coup

Contra Coup

The blow lands on one side. The damage appears on the other. That is the cruel, counterintuitive nature of a contra coup injury — and the quiet violence at the heart of this painting.

Layered with acrylic paint and embedded collage, Contra Coup is a work of opposites and reversals. What you see on the surface is a response to something that happened elsewhere — a reverberation, an echo, a wound displaced. The composition carries that tension: color that moves against itself, texture that pushes back, fragments that feel both found and fractured.

It is a painting that understands that trauma rarely shows up where you expect it.

• Medium: Acrylic & mixed media with collage on canvas
• Size: 8" × 8"
• Type: Original, one-of-a-kind painting
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