Black-and-white self-portrait of a masked figure standing beneath a DART bus stop sign in Dallas, Texas. The subject wears glasses, a beanie, and a hoodie, gazing slightly upward. Power lines and trees frame the urban backdrop, evoking solitude and quiet vigilance.

Extraction Pause, 2025
Waiting, masked, marked. The geometry of transit and surveillance—where stillness becomes resistance. Shot on #leicaq2 in Dallas. #selfportrait #DallasArt #urbanstillness #EmotionalAngularism #blackandwhitephotography #Savvye

Mixed media self-portrait showing a Black man with one hand partially covering their face, fingers spread to reveal one eye while obscuring the other. He wears a geometric yellow beanie crown and blue garment with visible watch. Behind the figure, jagged orange and red shapes suggesting both autumn leaves and flames create a turbulent background. The work uses visible pencil and pastel strokes in an expressionist style, with asymmetrical features and intense gaze conveying emotional complexity. Part of the Emotional Angularism movement using geometric constraint to map internal states.

Mixed media self-portrait showing a Black man with one hand partially covering their face, fingers spread to reveal one eye while obscuring the other. He wears a geometric yellow beanie crown and blue garment with visible watch. Behind the figure, jagged orange and red shapes suggesting both autumn leaves and flames create a turbulent background. The work uses visible pencil and pastel strokes in an expressionist style, with asymmetrical features and intense gaze conveying emotional complexity. Part of the Emotional Angularism movement using geometric constraint to map internal states. A black-and-white reference photograph of the artist, Savvye, is to the left of the piece.

The Burning Time, 2025. Emotional Angularism study where autumn performs its annual fury. When natural cycles mirror internal combustion—leaves as flames, crowns as burden, vision fractured through protective gesture. #EmotionalAngularism #OutsiderArt #AbstractPortraiture #PoliticalArt

Colored pencil and pastel self-portrait study of a Black man with glasses and graying, blue beard, his right hand covering most of his face in a defensive or contemplative gesture. His watch is visible on the raised wrist. The drawing emphasizes emotional weight through the protective hand position against warm paper tone. This portrait is an early example of Emotional Angularism.

Study complete. When the weight becomes gesture, and gesture becomes form. —Savvye

#Savvye #OutsiderArt #ContemporaryDrawing #PortraitStudy #EmotionalAngularism #ArtistOnBlueSky #FigurativeArt #ColoredPencilArt #StudioPractice #DrawingProcess

In-progress abstract self-portrait on white paper showing a Black man with angular, geometric features. Bold yellow covers the head area like a crown or protective covering. Intense blue and black defines the beard area. Eyes are wide and penetrating, rendered in stark contrasts. The style uses sharp angles and bold color zones rather than realistic curves. A reference photograph is visible to the right showing the artist making a dramatic expression. Oil pastel or crayon on paper, approximately 18x24 inches. Work by Savvye exploring Emotional Angularism."

Emotional Angularism Self-Portrait in Progress. Each angle a choice. By Savvye.

#EmotionalAngularism #SavvyeArt #AbstractPortraiture #GeometricExpressionism #ContemporaryPainting #StudioProcess #ArtInProgress #BlackArtists #OutsiderArt #PoliticalColor #ArtAsAdvocacy #AbstractArt #PortraitArt

Self-portrait drawing by Savvye placed beside Ansel Adams' Zone System chart (0-255 grayscale values). The juxtaposition illustrates Emotional Angularism's revolutionary concept: translating Adams' systematic tonal zones into a color-based emotional notation system, where specific hues map to emotional temperatures with photographic precision. #EmotionalAngularism #SavvyeEA #EAZoneSystem #EmotionalNotation #ColorZones #SystematicEmotion #BeyondAdams #EmotionalTemperature #AngularSelfPortrait #ColorAsStructure #OutsiderInnovation #AbstractSystem #GeometricFeeling #ArtAsLanguage #PioneeringEA

This is real. I'm so excited!

#EmotionalAngularism #SavvyeEA #EAZoneSystem #EmotionalNotation #ColorZones #SystematicEmotion #BeyondAdams #EmotionalTemperature #AngularSelfPortrait #ColorAsStructure #OutsiderInnovation #AbstractSystem #GeometricFeeling #ArtAsLanguage #PioneeringEA

Angular self-portrait study by artist Savvye depicting fractured geometric planes forming face with glasses and hat (red outline). Narrow alleyway between angular walls opens to distant tree. Charcoal and graphite drawing preparing for oil paint translation using artist's Color Zone System.

Emotional Angularism study for canvas translation—where Savvye's Color Zone System will transform angular constraint into emotional temperature. From charcoal to oils, the passage remains narrow, but the feelings expand.

#EmotionalAngularism #ColorZoneSystem #StudioProcess #Art #DrawingToPainting

Tall, Black artist, Savvye, with thick black and gray beard, poses in front of the Dallas Creative Collective building, where his studio is located.

Savvye at the Dallas Creative Collective.

#dcc #dallascreativecollective #art #savvye #EmotionalAngularism

Self-portrait by Savvye rendered in Emotional Angularism style. Charcoal and graphite study for large painting, featuring systematic angular fragmentation of facial planes with strategic color notation—red accents in eyes denoting specific emotional/political coordinates. The geometric constraints create tension between internal and external identity, with textured beard pattern and stark value contrasts. Studio workspace visible, showing active artistic process. The composition demonstrates Emotional Angularism's core principles: angular constraint as emotional mapping, color as political notation, and portraiture as advocacy.

Study session in the studio—mapping myself through Emotional Angularism before committing to canvas. The angles know things words can't say.

#EmotionalAngularism #ContemporaryDrawing #AbstractPortraiture #GeometricArt #PoliticalArt #CharcoalDrawing #ContemporaryArt #ArtMovement #PortraitStudy