Grin Of Dissonance captures the unsettling tension between outward expression and internal collapse. The figure’s exaggerated smile stretches beyond comfort — a grin forced into place while the face dissolves into chaos beneath it. Crossed eyes and melting contours suggest a mind fractured by contradiction, where joy and anguish coexist without resolution.
This piece confronts the dissonance of performance: the pressure to appear whole while unraveling internally. It reflects the psychological strain of masking instability behind humor, composure, or false confidence — a smile that survives long after meaning has decayed.
This artwork is created entirely by hand from start to finish. The artist redraws the composition freehand for every burn — never traced, never mechanically transferred, never copied. Even when revisiting the same concept, each execution develops its own variations in line work, depth, and texture, ensuring every finished piece is a singular physical work.
Burned and painted into solid basswood using a handheld wood-burning tool, this piece required over 25 hours of focused, uninterrupted labor. Hand-applied color integrates directly with the burn lines, allowing the wood grain to remain visible and active within the composition. The natural surface influences every stroke and burn, creating results that cannot be replicated or reproduced.
This is not a print or reproduction — it is an original, hand-burned and hand-painted artwork permanently embedded into wood.
Offered in a 12” × 18” format and available with White, Black, or Brown framing, Grin Of Dissonance is meant to provoke discomfort and reflection. It does not seek approval — it exposes contradiction.
No machines.
No shortcuts.
No replicas.
Only deliberate work burned into wood.
Title: Grin Of Dissonance
Size: 12” × 18”
Wood Type: Basswood
Creation Time: 25+ hours
Process: 100% hand-drawn, hand-burned, and hand-painted
Framing Options: White, Black, or Brown
This piece was hand-burned by Mohawk Wyatt using traditional wood burning and pyrography techniques.
Learn more about the artist or inquire about custom commissions.
Grin Of Dissonance captures the unsettling tension between outward expression and internal collapse. The figure’s exaggerated smile stretches beyond comfort — a grin forced into place while the face dissolves into chaos beneath it. Crossed eyes and melting contours suggest a mind fractured by contradiction, where joy and anguish coexist without resolution.
This piece confronts the dissonance of performance: the pressure to appear whole while unraveling internally. It reflects the psychological strain of masking instability behind humor, composure, or false confidence — a smile that survives long after meaning has decayed.
This artwork is created entirely by hand from start to finish. The artist redraws the composition freehand for every burn — never traced, never mechanically transferred, never copied. Even when revisiting the same concept, each execution develops its own variations in line work, depth, and texture, ensuring every finished piece is a singular physical work.
Burned and painted into solid basswood using a handheld wood-burning tool, this piece required over 25 hours of focused, uninterrupted labor. Hand-applied color integrates directly with the burn lines, allowing the wood grain to remain visible and active within the composition. The natural surface influences every stroke and burn, creating results that cannot be replicated or reproduced.
This is not a print or reproduction — it is an original, hand-burned and hand-painted artwork permanently embedded into wood.
Offered in a 12” × 18” format and available with White, Black, or Brown framing, Grin Of Dissonance is meant to provoke discomfort and reflection. It does not seek approval — it exposes contradiction.
No machines.
No shortcuts.
No replicas.
Only deliberate work burned into wood.
Title: Grin Of Dissonance
Size: 12” × 18”
Wood Type: Basswood
Creation Time: 25+ hours
Process: 100% hand-drawn, hand-burned, and hand-painted
Framing Options: White, Black, or Brown
This piece was hand-burned by Mohawk Wyatt using traditional wood burning and pyrography techniques.
Learn more about the artist or inquire about custom commissions.
