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About this work

A face floats on white paper, smeared in ink like a wet fingerprint. The eyes are hollow, the mouth a jagged slash of red pencil. Dumas made this in 1989, the same year she titled another version *How to Kill Your Mother*. The words aren’t here, but the feeling is—raw, messy, personal. She uses thin washes and quick scribbles to make skin look bruised or fading. If you like this, try more from the technique: cross-hatching. Dumas layers short, crisscrossing lines to build shadows and tension.