"SMELL THE R̶O̶S̶E̶S̶ CRISES" by Metalhead Melankolis Explore Mondoir Studio Medium: MIXED MEDIA Dimensions: 14 x 21 cm Year: 2025 Price: $333.00 USD Status: available The work diligently crafted using a combination of acrylic paint, oil pastel, HVS paper, magazine cutouts, and depressive episode by Metalhead Melankolis. Framed in A4 size. Why collect this work?A body-shaped collage compresses abundance into a narrow contour, making visual excess feel constrained rather than expansive. The artist profile links Metalhead Melankolis’s poetry and collage practices, while his statement describes cutting printed matter as a focusing response to mental-health struggles. This intention clarifies the repetitive handling of fragments without fixing their meaning.As photographed, cropped heads, mouths, limbs, flowers, ornaments and patterned surfaces collide at sharp seams. The surrounding white isolates the irregular outline, while its forked upper edge interrupts any stable reading of a single figure.The catalogue lists magazine cutouts, HVS paper, acrylic and oil pastel. At 14 by 21 centimetres, photographic fragments and opaque colour are densely concentrated, allowing abrupt changes of scale and register to remain legible.The title visibly cancels “roses” in favour of “crises.” Paired with the compressed mass of consumer imagery and bodily parts, that revision makes the work useful for considering how familiar messages of reassurance are overwritten by simultaneous pressures. About the ArtistMetalhead Melankolis Metalhead Melankolis is an artist on Mondoir Studio. Artistic discipline: Mixed Media Collage. Based in Jakarta, ID. Nationality: Indonesian Metalhead Melankolis is a poet who has a strong attachment to the art of collage.
