VIEW IN MY ROOM
United States
Painting, Oil on Canvas
Size: 36 W x 48 H x 0.5 D in
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I had a dream where I was running in panic from this hooded figure. It relentlessly tracked me and could go through walls and follow me into rooms despite my locking the door. The figure eventually caught me and entered my body because I grew weary from unsuccessfully running from it. As it entered I was terrified that I would then die. Instead, the figure made me feel safe, and embraced. I was so relieved then awoke. - This entire painting is created only with black paint called "mars black" The white is leftover space that shows because of the stroke patterns of the black paint; which when viewed up close are simply thick brush strokes of motion. Yet when one steps back the hooded figure emerges clearly. There are paint strokes within the black space of the figure representing eternal motion. The white crease on the top of the head of the figure is created by the clash of brush strokes meeting resistance. That crease symbolizes the flash of ideas and the notion of a puppet string. The words "Where Does Consciousness Go But To Itself" hold the figure accountable to itself. They are also arranged so that one can also see a question in the vertical layout of the words "Does Consciousness Go?" Then the word "Where" can also be see as a question. Where can consciousness exist without a witness? Who is the witness to consciousness other than all of us? - This piece is in my private collection and not for sale.
Painting:Oil on Canvas
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:36 W x 48 H x 0.5 D in
Frame:Not Framed
Ready to Hang:No
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United States
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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