Self-Portrait in Sunglasses with Playing Cards

Cropped close, the face is turned three-quarters and locked behind dark branded glasses, modelled in cool silver-greys with photographic precision. The canvas is divided into flat vertical fields: a warm yellow panel frames the head while an ochre band closes the right edge.

At the left a papery ground scattered with playing cards - kings, queens, aces and stray numerals - drifts loose as if freshly dealt, and a column of insect silhouettes files down the right margin. The realist head sits inside this stacked, poster-flat design, guarded and still against the decorative chance around it.