ABOUT THE WORK

Martin Honasan finds freedom in rendering portraits emerging out of layers and merging it with textures and folds. “As an artist, I want to be as free as possible,” he explained in an interview. A face emerging from abstractions is a marker of Honasan’s art. The face is perceived as a canvas that shows the human condition— from one’s emotions to expressions as responses to experiences, may it be moments of triumph or anguish. Honasan also noted that rendering the face, one of his most favorite subjects, is a meditative process. Influenced by figurative and contemporary artists like Gus Albor and Malang Santos as well as comic book illustrators, he explores textures, surfaces, distressed patterns, and the subtleties of the face with a creative process rooted in intuition and controlled chaos.