Encaustic and mixed media painting by Richard Johnson
21"x 15"
Black Walnut frame
"Don’t Bother They’re Here” is a dramatic interplay of texture and tension. Deep lines scar the background, their rawness softened by the subtle interplay of white highlights that evoke fleeting moments of light breaking through ruin. A bold black stroke slices through the composition with assertive finality, commanding attention like a mark of inevitability. Anchoring the piece are three opposing shapes in red, green, and bone—each carrying its own symbolic weight. The red shape vibrates with transparency, urgency and passion, the sea green like the calm before a tempest, and the bone with a haunting sense of mortality. These shapes hover like silent witnesses to their interplay both confrontational and harmonious.
