Sasha

A man with round glasses, a mustache and short beard stands half-length in a dark blue tunic tied with two cords, one hand raised in a thoughtful gesture, the other resting on an open primer printed with Cyrillic letters and text. He is set frontally against a busy backdrop of interlocking geometric shapes.

The background explodes with jagged zigzags and diamonds in gold, orange, red, teal and violet, painted flat and decorative in contrast to the more solidly modeled face and hands. The clash between calm figure and restless pattern gives the portrait an intense, charged presence.