Mask by Art Darling is a powerful abstract acrylic painting created with palette knives, depicting an elongated, mask-like face emerging from a deep black background. Jagged vertical knife strokes carve the form out of darkness, layering intense reds and burnt oranges with sharp, acidic yellow-greens, while black cuts through the surface like voids or scars. The colors are scraped, dragged, and fractured rather than blended, creating a raw, weathered texture that suggests erosion, conflict, and emotional exposure. Subtle horizontal and vertical divisions hint at eyes and a mouth without defining them, leaving the figure suspended between recognition and abstraction, as if the mask is both revealing and concealing an inner presence.