EXHIBIT: OBLIVIOUS TO THE LINE by Metalhead Melankolis Explore Mondoir Studio Medium: MIXED MEDIA Dimensions: 15.5 x 23.5 cm Year: 2026 Price: $888.00 USD Status: available The work diligently crafted using a combination of acrylic paint, oil pastel, HVS paper, and magazine cutouts by Metalhead Melankolis. Framed in A4 size. Why collect this work?A body-shaped collage is organized as much by its central white opening as by its crowded imagery, making the figure appear simultaneously assembled and incomplete. The artist describes collage-making as a calming response to mental health struggles. That account clarifies the practice’s personal stakes, while the work itself sustains visual friction rather than illustrating a diagnosis or resolution.In the photograph, an enlarged eye, hands, animals and miniature figures meet at abrupt edges and incompatible scales. A small standing figure crosses the outer contour, weakening the boundary between body and surrounding page.The documented magazine cutouts supply shifts in subject and scale, while acrylic, oil pastel and HVS paper allow printed and added elements to occupy one compact surface. Their combination preserves discontinuity instead of producing coherent anatomy.Made in 2026, this work gives concrete form to the title’s concern with lines: silhouette, internal opening and overlapping figure each establish a boundary, then test its authority. About the ArtistMetalhead Melankolis Metalhead Melankolis is an artist on Mondoir Studio. Artistic discipline: mixed-media. Based in Jakarta, ID. Nationality: Indonesian Metalhead Melankolis is a poet who has a strong attachment to the art of collage.
