DARKER THOUGHTS Painting

The piece comes with hanging, doesn't need a frame and is signed on the back. DARKER THOUGHTS is a smaller mixed media piece including a digital print (professional high quality lightfast ink), pigment liner, inks, and shellack inks on an acrylic base coated, slightly cracked spruce wood. It is a new approach on a mixed media (analogue) drawing on paper I've done 2014 called My Dark Cell, which is in possession of the Haegeumgang Theme Museum in Geoje, South Korea. It was shown there in the first International Environment Exhibition in August – September 2015, 1st IEE, as in the following traveling exhibition in several South Korean cities 2015 and 2016. As I had to let go of it quite fast after I finished it, I loved to create a small new version of it. I've worked on the print with several layers and washes of inks and shellack inks, there are only some white places in the picture which don't have layers upon them. I love transferring my own drawings on specially prepared wood pieces. I prepare my own pictures, their digital data and the wood all by myself. I continue working on the prints, so they are very different from the works on paper: They become unique new originals, not only because they play with the individual structure of the wood, but also because I take very different approaches on them. All the steps behind this mixed media piece: I started the original mixed media drawing (60x70cm) inspired by a poem of the Japanese poet Taro Aizu for the International South Korean exhibition mentioned above. All works shown were made inspired by his poems about the Fukushima Disaster 2011. My poem was about the possible damage of DNA through radiation, questioning what might be inside the residents' dark cells. Several examinations on blue butterflies had shown that DNA damage was not only fact around Fukushima, but also doubled and tripled when the affected butterflies breeded – in laboratories far away from Fukushima. After three generations, about 80% of the butterflies (start: nearly 30%) werde damaged or severely damaged, many beyond being able to eat or fly and with mutations. These butterflies – healthy ones as mutated, crumpled ones and one in pure white, a ghost of itself, sit in the woman's hair. In my new approach on the motive, I used dark surroundings and let her face shine out from it, a bit like a mask. It's a bit as we proceed: we don't look, and if we do, we don't want to show our sentiments, as we can't do anything; nothing for the region of Fukushima, nothing for the dead or the residents, nothing for all the DNA that is affected and shows in high rates of cancer, also with children. But we must not forget; we can at least remember and try ourselves to make do without nuclear power and care for all the radioactive material we've already produced. Drawing and painting on a print on wood is working with surprises. The surface (not the smooth, plain white paper anymore) is roughened, bears all the marks of the wood and it's own characteristics. It's an additional element that wants to be used and shares its surprises only after having it printed: marks, cracks and wooden eyes in locations I could not all foresee or avoid, for example. When a picture is freshly printed on wood, it may be a representation of the picture I've drawn, but it's not yet a new artwork standing on its own. Prints never are, and they never do the originals justice even though they are of high quality (and mine are). To me, this ain't a problem: That's just the moment when my work begins anew. Sometimes pictures develop to something totally new. It's a journey I'm loving to take. Sometimes I already know where I'm heading to, sometimes I start with details that lead to something or I start with an experiment forcing myself to leave my comfort zone. Colour reacts different in different spots: When the surface is hardened and closed, a line might stand on it, but when it's still open-pored, the ink may as well “fall” into the fibers or soak widely into them. Curiosity, learning and changing are, in my opinion, the most important deals in life, the real reasons of life itself. My art is either about this: capturing a moment, and then maybe changing or transforming it; or about captured thoughts, beauties, surreal ideas; my own history, identity or monologues; or about aspects or events of our world we shouldn't deny or forget. Nearly always, my works are a celebration of life, though they may be sometimes about fears or insecurities; we can conquer not all of life's incidents, but our own fears or anger, and we can grow on them.

Painting:Ink on Wood

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:7.7 W x 10.9 H x 0.8 D in

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