Take the Gloves Off

constellations

Constellations

Recurring symbols do not appear one at a time. They form clusters: red suns, gloves, masks, blue text, heroes, fools, interiors, rings, and witnesses.

When I Paint Most Archive

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Constellation Map

Artwork thumbnails become nodes. Edges show rare shared motifs, tags, and subjects; cluster buttons focus the field without removing the rest of the map.

thumbnail = artwork line = shared motifs/tags/subjects larger = more connected warm outline = bridge or focus

Major Clusters

Red Sun / Fool / Overexposure

48 works

Sunburn - A yellow circular face or sun with wide eyes sits in front of a red star shape, with the word smile near the upper…Break Point - A yellow field contains a large central black-and-red circular paddle or head form on a black body, with a…Sunburn at the Garden - A red rectangular chamber with the word DEAD sits beside a dense field of small ringed circles and rows, like…QUIT SKATEBOARDING - A figure in a pink cape or hoodie faces forward with an orange head area above, black side shapes, and a small dark…Under the Sun - A flat geometric image shows orange and red architectural blocks around a smaller pale rectangle with a black center.Humility (TEETH) - Two frontal heads share a scene with a narrow architectural or tunnel-like white shape between them and warm brown…

Solar works where the sun becomes a witness, face, pressure system, or heroic/foolish stage-light.

red sun / red starsun / starfool/heroiconhot

Boxer / Ring / Hero-Body

23 works

Eighteen Hundred Thousand - A dark portrait head in a red helmet or hood appears before a blue starry ground, with a white panel and red stars…Put The Gloves On - A suited man in black gloves stands before red and green geometry, holding his hands up in a formal or defensive…Take The Gloves Off - A raised white hand and a bright, shouting figure appear against black, red, yellow, and pale blue bands.Dance, Dance, Kill Him! - A boxing ring scene shows a raised orange figure behind ropes with yellow and blue words painted on the ring apron.Sunburn at the Garden - A red rectangular chamber with the word DEAD sits beside a dense field of small ringed circles and rows, like…Humility (TEETH) - Two frontal heads share a scene with a narrow architectural or tunnel-like white shape between them and warm brown…

The body as staged, ritual, or spectacular figure — boxing, gloves, ring-space, heroic posture, martyrdom.

boxerglovesstage / ring

Glove / Hand / Contact

23 works

Put The Gloves On - A suited man in black gloves stands before red and green geometry, holding his hands up in a formal or defensive…Take The Gloves Off - A raised white hand and a bright, shouting figure appear against black, red, yellow, and pale blue bands.In the Name of Glove - A red-pink, figure-like vertical shape stands in a pale field with green and red side marks and boxing-glove-like…Passover Handout - A blue field contains two white glove-like hand symbols, one fist and one open hand with a dark circular center…Come and Take It - A red glove fills the right; COME AND TAKE IT in white; a candle burns at the bottom edge.There's No Crying In Table Tennis - A red-faced figure or mask with open mouth appears under black triangular shapes, with small objects and a hand-like…

Gloves and hands as the archive's contact system — protection, performance, removal, touch, shame, and witness.

gloveshand

Blue Text / Label / Voice

28 works

Hypebeast - A horned cow or bull with several eyes fills the lower half; BEEF is painted on its forehead beneath a large reddish…Cherry Red Kool Aid (Ferb's World) - A mask-like cream shape with holes, blue vertical stripe, red-black ground, and hand-painted words occupies a dark…Bastard Writing - A ruled notebook page is filled with red and blue scribbles, faces, circles, arrows, and handwritten phrases.I Will Fucking Destroy You - A yellow text field declares I WILL FUCKING DESTROY YOU around two cartoon figures, one brown and one blue-white…Dance, Dance, Kill Him! - A boxing ring scene shows a raised orange figure behind ropes with yellow and blue words painted on the ring apron.Sunburn at the Garden - A red rectangular chamber with the word DEAD sits beside a dense field of small ringed circles and rows, like…

Blue text as label, interruption, voice, graffiti, caption, accusation, or spell.

blue texttext

Ping Pong / Hero / Mask

9 works

Akuma - A pale side-profile head wearing glasses or a mask sits in the lower half of a blue-green room with a red ringed…Friend of Akuma - A pale-faced figure with black hair occupies the right side of a dark interior; green angular forms and a small red…There's No Crying In Table Tennis - A red-faced figure or mask with open mouth appears under black triangular shapes, with small objects and a hand-like…Faces (Peco) - A pale face with dark hair or cap is cropped at the forehead, marked by red strokes and black eyes against a muted…Sunburn - A yellow circular face or sun with wide eyes sits in front of a red star shape, with the word smile near the upper…Auditions for the Rose Bowl Parade - A vertical panel shows stacked small face panels at left, two large round-headed figures at center/right, and white…

Works built around Ping Pong the Animation — heroism, masked identity, competition, theatrical pressure.

Mask / Face / Symbol-Person

50 works

Akuma - A pale side-profile head wearing glasses or a mask sits in the lower half of a blue-green room with a red ringed…Friend of Akuma - A pale-faced figure with black hair occupies the right side of a dark interior; green angular forms and a small red…Sock and Buskin - A dark stage-like scene shows a seated or reclining figure, a white hand shape, a red ball, a striped form, and a…Clavicular - A pale bust-length head and shoulders emerge from a black ground, with brown hair, yellowed facial tones, and a…Humility (TEETH) - Two frontal heads share a scene with a narrow architectural or tunnel-like white shape between them and warm brown…Barnes and Noble - A blue-clothed seated figure faces right in a dark brown and green room, while a bright pale-blue shape hovers…

The face as role, costume, icon — the person replaced by the symbol.

maskportraitidentity

Animal / Cartoon / Trickster

34 works

Hypebeast - A horned cow or bull with several eyes fills the lower half; BEEF is painted on its forehead beneath a large reddish…Walking the Dog - A yellow-suited figure walks across a green field holding dark objects, with a loose dog-like or bag-like black…Oobi Groupie - A soft pale face-like form with sparse blue dots and pink marks emerges from a loose beige and gray field.Common Bitch (Self Portrait) - A gray bulldog-like head wearing a black-and-white ruff or collar stares forward against a brown background.Tokai Teio - A brown horse head fills the right side with vertical Japanese text in pink and green along the left and a small…Pegasus - A white horse-like animal bends forward against a nearly black background, with a small red mark near the head and…

Animals as performers, roles, masks, and symbolic bodies — not animal art.

animalcartoon

Christian / Witness / Exposure

11 works

THEY BURNED HIS ROOF - A close brown face with darkened eye sockets and a pale blue shirt fills the frame against a yellow-gold ground.HE PREACHES IN THE SUN - A portrait-like dark-skinned figure in a pale blue garment stands before a gold field, with red cross-like marks…Passover Handout - A blue field contains two white glove-like hand symbols, one fist and one open hand with a dark circular center…Baptism of Icarus - A green standing figure raises one arm beside a white wing-like form against blue, red, and black horizontal bands.Jacob and Esau - A cutout-like brown figure stands on the right before ruled lines, with scattered tan fragments and a yellow circle…Bruiseboy - A white, rough animal- or boy-like form sprawls in thick paint over a dark maroon field, with a ghostly raised arm…

Christian reference, persecution, sacrifice, witness, and symbolic exposure as the organizing structure.

Christiancross

Ghost / Interior / Memory

39 works

Barnes and Noble - A blue-clothed seated figure faces right in a dark brown and green room, while a bright pale-blue shape hovers…Amanda Askell - A pale, nearly monochrome surface contains faint graphite-like lines suggesting wings or a central body, with large…Bastard Sun - A dark brown-black vertical form or hut-like mass sits in a blue-pink-green abstract field with thick ribbed strokes.Is-Was' Demon - A red rectangular back wall, gray table or bed, and green couch-like form sit in a dark room.Sunburn at the Garden - A red rectangular chamber with the word DEAD sits beside a dense field of small ringed circles and rows, like…Humility (TEETH) - Two frontal heads share a scene with a narrow architectural or tunnel-like white shape between them and warm brown…

Figures staged inside memory, screen-space, room-space, or afterimage.

ghostinteriormemory

Mixed Media / Collapse / Dissolution

46 works

Bastard Writing - A ruled notebook page is filled with red and blue scribbles, faces, circles, arrows, and handwritten phrases.I AM NOT A JOKE - A collage-like scene includes a rabbit head, a record or circular object, a red square, a bird-like head, ladder…Bruiseboy - A white, rough animal- or boy-like form sprawls in thick paint over a dark maroon field, with a ghostly raised arm…Under the Sun - A flat geometric image shows orange and red architectural blocks around a smaller pale rectangle with a black center.Love Takes Off - A pale pink central pathway or beam recedes between two black triangular sides on a gray ground with yellow and red…Amanda Askell - A pale, nearly monochrome surface contains faint graphite-like lines suggesting wings or a central body, with large…

Collage, notebook, scribble, partial figure, illegibility — a formal and material constellation.

collageabstraction

Bridge Works

Sunburn - A yellow circular face or sun with wide eyes sits in front of a red star shape, with the word smile near the upper…

Sunburn

bridges: hot, fear, blue text, strange, red sun / red star

 Sunburn at the Garden - A red rectangular chamber with the word DEAD sits beside a dense field of small ringed circles and rows, like…

Sunburn at the Garden

bridges: machine, watchful, pressure, blue text, high contrast

 Break Point - A yellow field contains a large central black-and-red circular paddle or head form on a black body, with a…

Break Point

bridges: ping pong, hot, impact, wings / flying, pressure

 Put The Gloves On - A suited man in black gloves stands before red and green geometry, holding his hands up in a formal or defensive…

Put The Gloves On

bridges: tense, stage / ring, tie, jacket, diagonal

 Akuma - A pale side-profile head wearing glasses or a mask sits in the lower half of a blue-green room with a red ringed…

Akuma

bridges: cool, jacket, resolve, red sun / red star, interior

 Eighteen Hundred Thousand - A dark portrait head in a red helmet or hood appears before a blue starry ground, with a white panel and red stars…

Eighteen Hundred Thousand

bridges: resolve, doubling, red sun / red star, boxer, sun / star

Eras

Every date is the date of a work's final photograph, not the day it was painted — the rhythm of the record, not the brush. (Painted on the weekend; the camera comes out Monday.)

By year

  • 2026 36 works photographed
  • 2025 55 works photographed
  • 2024 3 works photographed
  • 2023 6 works photographed
  • 2022 12 works photographed
  • 2021 11 works photographed
  • 2020 2 works photographed

Big days

  • 2026-02-15 5 works in one day
  • 2025-02-25 5 works in one day
  • 2023-10-16 5 works in one day
  • 2025-06-04 5 works in one day

Motif eras

  • red sun / red star peak 2026 (12 of 15)
  • boxer peak 2025 (10 of 16)
  • abstraction peak 2022 (11 of 40)
  • Christian peak 2026 (7 of 10)
  • blue text peak 2025 (6 of 11)
  • memory peak 2025 (7 of 15)

Photographs by weekday: Monday 25 · Saturday 21 · Tuesday 20 · Wednesday 19 · Sunday 18 · Thursday 15 · Friday 7

Most Connected Works

These works touch the most recurring tags, subjects, and symbolic systems.

Most Singular Works

Works carrying the rarest tag combinations in the archive.

Strongest Pair Overlaps

HE PREACHES IN THE SUN - A portrait-like dark-skinned figure in a pale blue garment stands before a gold field, with red cross-like marks… THEY BURNED HIS ROOF - A close brown face with darkened eye sockets and a pale blue shirt fills the frame against a yellow-gold ground.

HE PREACHES IN THE SUN + THEY BURNED HIS ROOF

overlap 2.5 · shared: Christians in Nigeria, Unnamed Pastor from an IG Ad, blue jacket, Christian, resolve, icon, portrait

Friend of Akuma - A pale-faced figure with black hair occupies the right side of a dark interior; green angular forms and a small red… Sunburn - A yellow circular face or sun with wide eyes sits in front of a red star shape, with the word smile near the upper…

Friend of Akuma + Sunburn

overlap 1.2 · shared: Peco, Ping Pong the Animation, strange, mask, eyes, fool/hero, portrait

Friend of Akuma - A pale-faced figure with black hair occupies the right side of a dark interior; green angular forms and a small red… Buckshot - A black-haired child-like figure in a red jacket holds or bites a white object, standing on a brown floor with a red…

Friend of Akuma + Buckshot

overlap 1.15 · shared: Peco, Ping Pong the Animation, jacket, interior, fool/hero, figure

Sunburn - A yellow circular face or sun with wide eyes sits in front of a red star shape, with the word smile near the upper… Buckshot - A black-haired child-like figure in a red jacket holds or bites a white object, standing on a brown floor with a red…

Sunburn + Buckshot

overlap 0.97 · shared: Peco, Ping Pong the Animation, fool/hero

Break Point - A yellow field contains a large central black-and-red circular paddle or head form on a black body, with a… Table Tennis - A gray, scraped interior-like field shows a large foreground hand over a dark circular head or paddle form, with a…

Break Point + Table Tennis

overlap 0.95 · shared: Ping Pong the Animation, ping pong, pressure, color guy, smile, fool/hero, performance, figure

Auditions for the Rose Bowl Parade - A vertical panel shows stacked small face panels at left, two large round-headed figures at center/right, and white… Break Point - A yellow field contains a large central black-and-red circular paddle or head form on a black body, with a…

Auditions for the Rose Bowl Parade + Break Point

overlap 0.89 · shared: Ping Pong the Animation, ping pong, wings / flying, smile, fool/hero, performance, figure

Dulcinea I - A sparse white sheet contains a red-purple abstract head or mouth-like shape, with faint purple lines below. Dulcinea II - A dark, densely worked field holds buried pink, blue, and green color beneath a blackened surface.

Dulcinea I + Dulcinea II

overlap 0.82 · shared: Dulcinea, Don Quixote, lonely, abstraction

Barnes and Noble - A blue-clothed seated figure faces right in a dark brown and green room, while a bright pale-blue shape hovers… Sophisticated Ignorance - Kanye on Ellen — two figures at the table, plants behind glass, the Watch the Throne line stamped in red below.

Barnes and Noble + Sophisticated Ignorance

overlap 0.8 · shared: Kanye West, doubling, contemporary lane, figure