Rake as an Archibald

What the artist said “My portrait is an attempt to depict him [Charles Waterstreet] as a giant: part-man, part-mythical creature with hands that appear otherworldly, as though the anatomy of his hands has been designed to grasp unnatural disasters, naturally.”

What I see; a living zombie that has been partially mummified through self-loathing and the dissonance caused by an excessive disconnection between the limbic system and the neocortex.

ps It’s quite irrational to ask an artist to explain their work. The good ones (almost by definition) can’t and any attempt by them to do so just highlights the dysfunctionality between their well-exercised limbic system and their undernourished and disconnected neocortex, aka dissonance.