CONCEPTUAL ART

Portraits of Dissonance

Art by DocT

Curated by echo. Painted by algorithm. Conceived in fracture.

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A FACE IS NOT A FACE, IT IS A BATTLEFIELD

Portraits of Dissonance by DocT

Where MY BRAIN ON CHAIN dissected the mind, sliced thought into permanence and engraved it into Bitcoin, PORTRAITS OF DISSONANCE turns its gaze outward. From cortex to countenance. From the anatomy of cognition to the distortion of the self.

But a face is never just a face. It’s a site of conflict. A projection, a mask, a scar. It smiles while breaking. It conceals while collapsing.

Each portrait in this collection is an assault:

On the notion of wholeness. On the fantasy of a stable identity. On the quiet lie of cohesion.

They do not seek beauty. They seek truth—but truth is broken.

LES ‘GUEULES CASSÉES’
THE PAINT ATTACKS
CURATED BY MY BRAIN ON CHAIN
ROBOT ASSISTED ACRYLIC PAINTINGS
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“With everything happening in the world right now, I couldn’t help but being strongly reminded of my time working in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iraq. Those experiences are always with me—and honestly, they’re a big part of why I started making art in the first place.”

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THE OUTWARD PROJECTION OF THE SELF

LES ‘GUEULES CASSÉES’

The “broken faces” of soldiers who returned from the First World War, stand as some of the most haunting portraits of the 20th century. Shattered by shrapnel and surgery, these men bore their wounds in full view, refusing erasure in a society unequipped to face their pain. PoD carries that legacy into the present.

The fractures here are not inflicted by war, but by memory, identity, and the silent violence of being. These faces are distorted not by metal, but by pressure, from within and without. In both, the portrait refuses to heal cleanly. And in both, there is a strange, defiant beauty in the decision to remain visible, to let the damage speak.

THE PAINT ATTACKS

These are not portraits in any traditional sense. They do not attempt to represent; they unsettle. The paint does not describe. It attacks. It buries and reveals, distorts and exposes. Each brushstroke becomes a wound, a gesture of defiance, an act of unmaking.

In this collection, identity is treated not as a fixed essence but as a volatile construction, layered, unstable, and deeply fragile. What emerges is not a person, but a field of conflict. These faces are not whole; they are held together by tension alone.

CURATED BY MY BRAIN ON CHAIN

Collectors of MY BRAIN ON CHAIN each hold a fragment of the artist’s mind and creative self. In Portraits of Dissonance, that bond came alive. Their instinctive, emotional reactions to the early works shaped both the titles and the tone of the final pieces.

These individual responses, distilled into co-curation statements, are now inscribed on- chain — part of the art forever. The decentralized mind spoke through the collectors, and the art listened, completing the loop from thought to audience, and back again.

ROBOT ASSISTED ACRYLIC PAINTINGS

Each digital portrait can be mirrored in the physical world as a 60x90cm robot-assisted acrylic painting, a collaboration between human emotion and mechanical precision, powered by MatrLab.

Every brushstroke is executed by machine, but born of violence, memory, and contradiction. The result is a physical echo of digital unrest, one that lives on your wall, in your space, refusing to let you look away.

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CURATION STATEMENTS

I Saw Too Much, Now I See Nothing
Portrait of Dissonance #01

It is me, you, anyone—blinded by what we’ve seen, yet refusing to turn away, carrying the consequences of truly looking. This blindness is not emptiness but a scar, holding the weight of desperation, anxiety, and pain. The face, struck by bold, chaotic strokes, strains under the pressure of identity pushed to its limits. Embedded in this turmoil is a fragment of soul. It confronts us with a raw emotional reality, demanding we choose: submit to the system that burned away our vision or stare right back at it.

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Curated by:
rg_ser
Admiral Haze
VIVID Gallery
CyberSea
Foollower 83919315
SNGLR_NFT
Anon 1

The Time May Have Come
Portrait of Dissonance #02

Thick yellow paint slashes across a suited face, dripping over red lips to reveal a persona stretched thin by obligation. A polished collar hints at success concealing an inner emptiness, while violent brushwork and clashing colors convey the inner dissonance the figure endures with composure and quiet courage. But what once served as a shield for the truest self now exposes slivers of vulnerability. The work fuses reality and emotion into stark contrast, channeling both personal essence and a timeless conflict haunted by an echoing past. What remains is one question: is there still enough within to finally walk a path of one’s own making? The time may have come.
Curated by:
ol1y
rg_ser
Admiral Haze
CyberSea
DocT
Anon 1

Bright Suppression
Portrait of Dissonance #03

The work unfolds like a ghastly surprise—a forced brightness unsuccessfully masking an urgent desire to escape. The figure’s posture and presence speak to the toll of constant exposure to life’s darker currents. Caught between surrendering to the system and risking everything for authentic creation, it confronts those of us who consciously seek resonance, only to discover its inseparability from dissonance. It merges the real and the spectral, carrying undercurrents of desperation, anxiety, and pain. Shards of the self appear where outward image collides with hidden emotion, circling back in a relentless boomerang of reflection and return.
Curated by:
Kanetix
rg_ser
MattTheCoffeeGuy
BudSnob
Anonymous
SNGLR_NFT
Theezy

Edge of Disclosure
Portrait of Dissonance #04

A brutal exploration of fractured identity and emotional containment. The portrait feels almost suffocated by the aggressive smears and slashes of color, like catching your own reflection at the wrong moment—when the constant effort to keep others from seeing your full self is on the brink of failure, or has just tipped beyond it. It captures the instant when the mask slips, when the self grows too loud to silence. The thick yellow smear enforces a façade, concealing secrets too dark to expose. The red, distorted mouth and bloodshot eye show a silent scream buried beneath layers of forced calm. Shards of the self emerge as the outward image and perception finally merge with inner feelings.
Curated by:
ol1y
Kanetix
Longshot
Anonymous
EP
Theezy
DocT

Functioning While Fracturing
Portrait of Dissonance #05

The mirror to the untamed mind—unveiling the tension between who we are and what we suppress. Its figure, weary and on edge, seems burdened by the relentless noise of the world. Bold, chaotic strokes fracture the surface, capturing the silent dissonance between appearance and inner truth. It poses the question of whether resonance can exist without dissonance—revealing that meaning arises only through contrast. At its core, the work might also be a distilled essence of the artist, channeling life’s layered realities: fleeting joy, sorrow, and struggle.
Curated by:
Admiral Haze
MattTheCoffeeGuy
BudSnob
Tanimonchain
Anon 1
Anon 2

Between Vanishing and Being
Portrait of Dissonance #06

This portrait slams us with a brutal yellow—eyes erased, the soul ripped away, raw and exposed. The face hangs between being and vanishing, a twisted scream of silence, refusing easy meaning. We grasp at connection but hit a wall of blindness. Like fish hooked without knowing, we thrash in schemes that pull us under, caught and powerless. It’s violent, unsettling—an unflinching look at what hides beneath the surface, the fractured self screaming from inside its own erasure.
Curated by:
Foollower 83919315
DocT

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DocT is a Germany-based multidisciplinary artist and pediatrician whose work fuses storytelling, anthropology, and technology to create profound visual narratives.

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