Chess Sickness

Sebastian Black's *Chess Sickness* is an oil on linen painting that channels the obsessive, cerebral tension of the game into rich, tactile brushwork. Black's layered application of paint creates a surface that feels simultaneously strategic and feverish, as though the canvas itself were caught in the grip of an unresolvable match. The work lingers in the uneasy space between concentration and collapse, where intellectual pursuit tips into compulsion.