VIEW IN MY ROOM
eye-dentity Painting
United States
Painting, Oil on Canvas
Size: 24 W x 24 H x 0.5 D in
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How many times have you looked in the mirror? Was it to see yourself? Or to check how you look before you head out the door? Or to analyze your features and celebrate being attractive, or chastise your face and determine how to make it look better? How does seeing yourself in a mirror make you feel compared to looking at another human being? Are you attractive? Ugly? Aging? Have acne? Do we look in the mirror for our Narcissus or de we look in the mirror to check that we are presentable to "everyone else?" For myself the answer to the question on the canvas is "yes." I see myself and I see what others say about me. Looking in the mirror is not just an image of myself, but a collection of observations I make about myself inclusive of my experience with others in life and how they look at me. The purple abstract brush strokes resemble the eye that looks upon myself and others. The broken mirror is the pupil that is shattered and reflective offering me more than one option to view myself. The colors representing the iris are the reminder that whatever I see the first time I look, can change; including whether I am concerned/pleased with what others think or concerned/pleased about my own self. The words are also grouped to be paradoxical, reflective, contrary and associative. The question is rhetorical and offers the awareness of everchanging motion with respect to my identity/self evaluation and suggests forgiveness in that I can never be locked into a single identity while having the security of not being able to escape conscious awareness of my existence.
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Painting:Oil on Canvas
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:24 W x 24 H x 0.5 D in
Frame:Not Framed
Ready to Hang:Not applicable
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I tell people that I paint God’s mistake which I know is controversial whether you are deeply religious or the opposite such as atheist. Yet my work is not about God, religion or atheism. My art is about the trauma associated with the inescapable relationship that mortality has with innocence. Our birth is not the intent of mortality, but it necessarily creates our personal annihilation. This personal destiny leaves each of us vulnerable to condemning our connection with innocent others who “created us to die” without our permission. Our “error” is our ownership of blame for mortality which is not the power over death; it is our power over cruelty. This inescapable destiny is where my art begins its expression(s). MY ART I use the ancient form of 2-D art to represent TIME as broken yet unfinished and continuing. Like the backside of a hung painting, we are absent before our birth and brought into reality through “others” who have marked our canvas of life already. Once born we see ourselves reflected on the "front side" of life yet witness our previous absence. My art examines this division as the relationship between hope and trust relevant to innocence. The change that each of us becomes by birth is a natural expression from life that we can perceive as a tradition of change. My art celebrates this with my rotation of mediums, vivid colors, energetic brush strokes, narratives of time-conflict, emotional dichotomies, vortex compositions showing our inescapable connection to a fractured reality, rhetorical word-play, and weapons symbolizing our relationship with mortal vulnerability. My “signature” is broken mirrors that capture the WITNESS as part of my art reminding us of our entitlement to mortal existence.
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