Face Off is at once an unfinished portrait and a complete expression of the ephemeral. The upper portion where the eyes, forehead, and crown would reside is simply gone—whether by design, erosion, or a child stepping on it—is left entirely to the viewer’s imagination.
The sculpture is both striking in its anatomical accuracy and unsettling in its incompleteness. Shadows pool in the absence of the upper features, giving the impression of a memory half-remembered or an identity in the process of disappearing.