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Balance in Chaos
Original - Mixed Media
Balance in Chaos is a powerful exploration of strength, vulnerability, control, and resilience. At the center of this dramatic composition, a graceful ballerina rises on pointe, her delicate movements contrasting with the harsh industrial environment surrounding her. Dressed in a dramatic black feathered tutu, she embodies both elegance and determination. Above her, an oversized hand manipulates thin red marionette strings, symbolizing the external pressures, expectations, and circumstances that attempt to control our lives. Yet despite these forces, the ballerina maintains her poise, refusing to surrender her balance. Vibrant copper-red industrial pipes run through a distressed background of muted earth tones, charcoal, and fragmented textures. Layered typography introduces powerful messages, including “Resistance,” “Pressure,” “Fight the Chaos,” and “Find Your Balance.” These words reinforce the emotional tension between restriction and personal freedom. The combination of acrylic painting, photographic imagery, collage, dimensional feathers, and industrial elements creates a striking contrast between fragility and strength. Ultimately, Balance in Chaos is about more than a dancer. It is about the human experience of navigating adversity, resisting control, and discovering the strength to remain standing when everything around us threatens to pull us apart. The message is simple: We may not control the forces around us, but we can determine how we rise above them.
Hardison Art ATL - Fragmented Documentary Mixed Media
Shadow of Confidence
Original - Mixed Media
Shadow of Confidence
36 × 48 in. | Acrylic & Mixed Media
Shadow of Confidence explores the complicated distance between how we appear to the world and how we sometimes see ourselves.
At the center, the figure is constructed from fragmented images, painted surfaces, personal documents, maps, handwritten elements, and pieces of memory. Surrounding him are references to places, experiences, and moments that have shaped his identity. Beside him, Harrison provides a familiar presence of loyalty and unconditional companionship.
Behind them rises the imposing shadow of a Doberman—larger, stronger, and more assured than the figure casting it. The shadow becomes a symbol of the confidence, resilience, and strength that may exist within us even when we struggle to recognize those qualities ourselves.
Layers of teal, black, copper, and weathered paper create a visual history in which past and present coexist. Like memory itself, some fragments are clear while others are partially hidden beneath what came afterward.
Shadow of Confidence is ultimately a self-portrait about identity, vulnerability, and resilience—the realization that sometimes the strongest version of ourselves is already there, waiting for us to see it.
Hardison Art ATL - Fragmented Documentary Mixed Media
Two Hearts One Soul
Original - Mixed Media
Two Hearts One Soul
24 × 36 in. | Acrylic & Mixed Media
Two Hearts One Soul explores the bond between human and companion—two individual lives connected through loyalty, trust, and unconditional love.
Built from hundreds of fragmented blocks of color, the composition brings the figures together through a shared visual rhythm. Cool blues and teals surround the human figure while intense reds, oranges, and yellows move through Harrison, creating two distinct energies that merge rather than compete. The fragmented, almost mosaic-like surface reflects the many small moments and experiences that accumulate into a relationship that becomes inseparable.
At its heart, the work is about companionship beyond words: the quiet understanding, protection, comfort, and devotion that can exist between a person and the animal who walks through life beside them.
Two hearts. Two souls. One shared journey.
Hardison Art ATL - Fragmented Documentary Mixed Media
Burden of Proof
Original - Mixed Media
Burden of Proof
30 × 40 in. | Fragmented Documentary Mixed Media
Burden of Proof is a deeply personal visual record of injury, disbelief, treatment, and the long struggle to have an experience acknowledged.
Built through layers of acrylic, fragmented photographs, medical imagery, documents, industrial references, and found visual language, the work transforms a complicated medical and workers’ compensation journey into evidence on canvas. X-rays, hospital imagery, aircraft and airport references, warning signs, anatomical fragments, and pieces of documentation collide within a predominantly blue and teal palette.
The dense layering is intentional. There is no single image that tells the entire story—just as no single medical record, appointment, surgery, or document can fully communicate what it means to have your life permanently changed by an injury.
At the center of the work is the question of proof: How much evidence is enough when the person living through it already knows what happened?
Burden of Proof turns documentation into testimony and a personal history into something that cannot simply be ignored.
Hardison Art ATL - Fragmented Documentary Mixed Media
Dog Boss
Original - Mixed Media
Bed Hog
30 × 40 in. | Acrylic & Mixed Media
Bed Hog captures one of the great truths of living with a dog: somehow, the smallest member of the household always manages to claim the most space.
Inspired by Harrison’s talent for taking over the bed, the piece turns an ordinary, affectionate moment into a playful portrait of companionship. Surrounded by sweeping white bedding, Harrison settles comfortably into his territory while the human figure is reduced to whatever space remains.
Fragments of blues, grays, creams, and earthy tones move across the composition, contrasting with Harrison’s warm caramel coloring and creating the sense of a memory being assembled piece by piece.
Humorous on the surface, Bed Hog is ultimately about the intimacy of everyday life—the routines, comfort, trust, and small moments that make an animal not simply a pet, but family.
The bed may belong to the human. Harrison simply allows him to sleep in it.
Hardison Art ATL - Fragmented Documentary Mixed Media
Between Here and There
Original - Mixed Media
Between Here and There
20 × 24 in. | Acrylic & Mixed Media
Between Here and There explores the space between where we come from, where we are, and where we are still trying to go.
Layered with fragments of maps, street imagery, bicycles, architectural elements, typography, signs, and found imagery, the composition unfolds like a visual journal. References to Amsterdam and urban travel move throughout the piece, suggesting both a physical journey and the less visible journey of memory, experience, and personal change.
The figures moving forward through the center become the anchor within the surrounding chaos. Directional signs, pathways, barriers, and overlapping fragments suggest that life rarely follows a straight route. We stop, change direction, get lost, discover something unexpected, and continue forward.
Between Here and There captures that unsettled but beautiful territory between departure and arrival—the realization that sometimes the journey itself becomes the destination.
Hardison Art ATL - Fragmented Documentary Mixed Media
Ice Rose
Original - Acrylics
Ice Rose
Acrylics
Ice Rose explores the contrast between the softness of nature and the structure of the world surrounding it.
A cluster of richly textured blue flowers emerges across a layered field of turquoise, teal, and deep indigo. Created with expressive, dimensional brushwork, the blossoms appear almost sculpted from the surface, while flashes of white, violet, and soft pink give the petals an icy luminosity. Small touches of yellow bring warmth and life to the cool palette.
Behind the flowers, geometric patterns, translucent layers, drips, and sweeping gestural marks introduce an industrial edge. The contrast between organic forms and structured geometry creates a sense of nature pushing through something controlled and constructed.
Ice Rose is a study in strength within delicacy—the idea that something beautiful can remain resilient even in the coldest environment.
Hardison Art ATL - Fragmented Documentary Mixed Media
The Generation Before Us
Original - Mixed Media
The Generation Before Us
24 × 24 in. | Acrylic & Mixed Media
The Generation Before Us is a tribute to the workers whose strength, skill, and courage helped build the modern American city.
Inspired by the iconic images of ironworkers high above New York City during the construction of Rockefeller Center, the piece repeats these figures across a fragmented landscape of aged documents, architectural imagery, industrial markings, and history. Rusted pipework physically crosses the composition, bringing the materials of construction directly into the artwork.
Deep blues, weathered grays, sepia, rust, and aged paper tones give the piece the feeling of an industrial archive—something uncovered rather than simply painted. Layers of imagery suggest generations of labor, sacrifice, and craftsmanship accumulating over time.
The Generation Before Us asks us to look beyond the buildings and monuments and remember the people behind them—the workers who took the risks, carried the weight, and created something that would remain long after they were gone.
We stand on what the generation before us built.
Hardison Art ATL - Fragmented Documentary Mixed Media
What Now
Human
Original - Mixed Media
What Now Human?
Acrylic & Mixed Media
What Now Human? captures that unmistakable moment when a dog looks directly at you as if waiting for you to explain what happens next.
The dog is constructed from interlocking fragments of blues, turquoise, indigo, gray, and cream, creating a stained-glass-like portrait filled with movement and personality. Expressive eyes become the emotional center of the composition, giving the subject a mixture of curiosity, patience, and quiet judgment.
Around the figure, layered blocks of color, graphic marks, dots, and gestural lines break apart the background, blurring the boundary between portraiture and abstraction. The fragmented construction reflects the visual language found throughout Harding Perreault's work while giving the piece a playful, contemporary energy.
What Now Human? celebrates the wonderfully complicated relationship between dogs and the people they manage—the looks, expectations, routines, and conversations that somehow require no words at all.
Because sometimes one look says everything: “Well, human… what now?”
The Loudest Mania
Original - Mixed Media
The Loudest Mania
24 × 36 in. | Acrylic & Mixed Media
The Loudest Mania is a visual expression of what it feels like when the mind becomes impossible to quiet.
A partially obscured figure emerges from layers of black, white, and gray while an explosive burst of electric blue, magenta, violet, and pink radiates outward from the head. Fine lines collide with aggressive brushwork, drips, fractured textures, and flashes of intense color, transforming internal energy into something almost physical.
The contrast between the dark, restrained figure and the eruption above represents the tension between outward appearance and inner experience—the ability to appear composed while thoughts, ideas, emotions, and impulses race in countless directions at once.
Rather than portraying mania simply as chaos, the work also acknowledges its intensity, creativity, energy, and overwhelming momentum.
The Loudest Mania is about the noise no one else can hear—and what it feels like when your own mind becomes the loudest thing in the room.
Hardison Art ATL - Fragmented Documentary Mixed Media