Beneath the Surface

"Beneath the Surface" offers a profound visual metaphor for the act of testimony, as seen through the eyes of a stenographer. The artwork presents a deconstructed wall, a structure of record, where fragmented text and imagery emerge like pieces of evidence. Vibrant fields of pink and orange represent the raw emotion of spoken words, while the weathered textures and layered newsprint evoke the complex, often contradictory, nature of human stories. Gilded bricks stand out as the "golden nuggets" of truth—the key phrases and crucial moments that define a narrative. The artist, drawing from a career of documenting the human experience, masterfully balances the chaos of testimony with the structure of the record, creating a powerful meditation on what is said, what is remembered, and what lies just beneath the surface of the official transcript.