Desperation, pure desperation, is what we feel when things go wrong, when we lose everything we hold dear—friends, material possessions, and finally, the person we cherish the most. I've depicted this restless manifestation of our inner world by drawing a highly stylized and abstract face, in the act of disintegrating under the intensity of the emotion it expresses, tearing it into many pieces. The scene is highly dynamic; the face is fragmenting in all directions, losing touch with its own human nature, transfiguring, acquiring features that go beyond human comprehension. The features, the eyes, the hair have vanished, replaced instead by subtle raised lines and vivid colors that give an electrifying and evanescent effect. The background, heavily distorted and blurred in some areas, appears to be the stage for a powerful energy, as if it were the victim of an unimaginable explosion—the explosion of all the anger and negative emotions associated with it, accumulated over time, concretizing in the dissolution of the matter that contained them, radiating into space and dispersing in a myriad of irregular colors and shapes in motion.