RANDY SIMMONS The Truth Was Her Blind Spot, 2025

RANDY SIMMONS

The Truth Was Her Blind Spot, 2025

46” x 48”

charcoal, white conté and pastels

$7,500

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This drawing is a companion piece to, “The Sound of Loneliness (Left A Mark on Her Face), sharing the same composition and dark observations of the same person, my attacker.

“The Truth Was Her Blind Spot” started with discovering a photo online of a golf ball with numbers handwritten into each dimple. By removing the ball itself, I’m left with a series of numbers that float in a sphere form, some numbers become indecipherable, some seem to project mass. Together they form a ball of confusion that seems to be crushing the fly, hinting also at a dung beetle “wallerin’” in feces.

The three floating symbols are all the same but viewed from different angles: three circles in descending size like a target, three circles floating over each other in space, three circles that become straight lines. While they are all different perspectives, they are all equally true.

I look at this drawing as a painting more so in the application of the layers of white, using a palette knife with a sponge tip for the first time.

The fly was swatted but still alive, suffocating under the weight of undecipherable symbols of self-identity, choking on the past and smoking into the future. I’m not fooled by your new persona. I still know who you are: the unapologetic poet.

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