The Great Boyg

$225.00

9.5” x 9.5” x 1.5”

On display and available for purchase at the C Word Contemporary Gallery, Portland, ME

You must go around it. In The Great Boyg, a half-hidden figure waits beneath bark and moss—visible only through a lens. Inspired by Ibsen’s unnamable force, this assemblage invites you into a forested puzzle of presence and perception. Is the Boyg a monster, a memory, or a mirror?

9.5” x 9.5” x 1.5”

On display and available for purchase at the C Word Contemporary Gallery, Portland, ME

You must go around it. In The Great Boyg, a half-hidden figure waits beneath bark and moss—visible only through a lens. Inspired by Ibsen’s unnamable force, this assemblage invites you into a forested puzzle of presence and perception. Is the Boyg a monster, a memory, or a mirror?

Materials List:

  • Natural bark and lichen

  • Preserved moss

  • Dyed paper or painted panel (mimicking mycelial growth or cracked earth)

  • Brass-rimmed magnifying lens

  • Hidden photographic image of shadowy creature

  • Rustic wood frame with rope hanger

  • Rope accent

  • Shadowbox construction with natural and photographic layering

At first glance, The Great Boyg offers only texture and suggestion: bark, moss, and a veined surface like an ancient forest floor. But peer through the brass-rimmed lens, and a figure begins to emerge—blurred, almost spectral. Is it the Boyg itself? Ibsen’s amorphous, ungraspable force takes visual form here as a creature glimpsed but not fully revealed. The piece plays with concealment and revelation, nature and mythology, inviting viewers to see more the longer they look. It resists explanation—just as the Boyg always does.