Exploring identity, perception, and the human psyche through oil on glass and kinetic techniques.
2016 | Oil on glass with holographic elements
A portrait that fractures and shifts as it moves through time, revealing the fragmented nature of consciousness. Using holographic techniques with oil paint on glass, this work captures multiple moments simultaneously—the face dissolving and reforming as viewers move around it.
The piece visualizes how memory and identity fragment over time, how the unconscious mind splinters the self into countless shifting versions. It's a meditation on temporal perception and the impossibility of capturing a singular, fixed identity.
view full work"McLeod's portrait literally spins—it's attached to a device that makes it spin and quiver—suggesting the power of the unconscious to make one's head spin. In the hologram his face fragments as it moves through time, suggesting the power of the unconscious to fragment the self."
David Bruce McLeod is a painter and materials artist who challenges traditional portraiture through innovative work on tempered glass. By painting on both sides of the surface and incorporating kinetic and holographic elements, he creates multilayered works that shift with the viewer's perspective—mirroring the fluid, complex nature of human consciousness.
His work has been recognized by the Portrait Society of America, featured in American Art Collector and Southwest Art Magazine, and exhibited at Booth Gallery in New York.
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