Thoughtless Red Mind

From the Cosmos Encoded series

Original Painting

36 × 48 in (91.4 × 121.9 cm)

Acrylic and premium metallic ink on canvas

2023

Price: $3,200 CAD

This is a one-of-a-kind original painting by J. Kent Messum.

Signed by the artist and accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity.

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– Thoughtless Red Mind –

There’s a moment when anger swells beyond words,
when thought collapses under the weight of pure, unfiltered emotion.

It’s the kind of rage that sharpens everything, turns the edges jagged,
distorts the air until the world is nothing but red.

This piece carries that same volatile current I felt reading Jesus’ Son,
a scene where fury eclipses reason, where focus fractures
and the mind becomes a weapon aimed at everything and nothing at once.

The shapes are hostile, the colours unapologetic, the energy both magnetic and dangerous.

It’s the chaos of losing yourself to heat, the surrender to a state where nothing else exists but the burn.

– J. Kent Messum