Still Too Many, 2024
Acrylic, Graphite Point
51.2 x 38.2 in
When obsession distorts perception, even the most minimal presence becomes an overwhelming excess.
Still Too Many belongs to the Behind the Obvious series, in which Abraham Aronovitch uses the bathroom mirror as a structuring device of perception. The work highlights how mental fixation can radically alter the gaze. A male figure stands facing a gray circular surface organized around a single central point, revealing how the mind projects excess where reality remains reduced to its bare essentials.
Confronted with the mirror, the figure clings to what appears insignificant: a pale circle, a point. This fixation becomes the site of a distortion in which number no longer functions as an objective measure, but as a felt saturation. The painting explores a state of captive perception, unable to detach itself from a minimal presence that ultimately overwhelms the mental space. The mirror does not reveal a real excess, but the effect of an obsession that amplifies emptiness until it becomes suffocating.

