Blair Aiken painted in near-total isolation for 37 years.
When asked who he would most want to interview — living or dead, real or fictional — he replied:
“God. And I wouldn’t ask Him anything.”
He wanted to find the answers himself.
The long, difficult process of unmasking — of stripping away the masks he had worn his entire life — became reason enough to keep painting.
These works are the honest record of that private journey. Not made for the market, for exhibitions, or for approval — but as a direct confrontation with the masks we all wear, and the difficult truths beneath them.
Dark yet hopeful.