VIEW IN MY ROOM
Scott Charles Leichhardt Hollingsworth
Spain
Painting, Watercolor on Cardboard
Size: 11.7 W x 8.3 H x 0.1 D in
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Hormesis never sleeps Inspired by "Hormegeddon, how too much of a good thing leads to disaster". Title of a book by the American blogger Bill Bonner, and part of the always expanding word series, "prose and profanity" this work started life long before as an experiment gone wrong. Featuring my signature shiny stripy sticks I decided to try mixing different colours on the same work. Big mistake, as only ugliness ensured. It stayed that way for a year or more, languishing in the drawer of woe-begotten experiments gone wrong, until, one day recently I realised that it was time for it to advance or die. I flooded it with water, mixing all these colours into brackish browns, and let that dry. Then, using my 'unpainting' technique, where I wet the surface with a brush and then cleaning the brush re-wet and so forth, 'cleaning' areas of the paint, or at least what hasn't stained, by soaking up the pigment and transferring it to kitchen towelling. It's a technique that I usually use in monochrome, or one colour over another. But the effect here is something different and has transformed this work. Although still ugly, it now seems to have an internal sense and therefore a type of beauty. As for the word, I have written a few times about the use of this most mundane of profanities in my work, but here I would just like to say, maybe there is no there there. If you think about it, as I only removed the negative space, in a way the words were never written there, at least not by me. Was it my hand, or was it the hand of god? The selection of this work that I have shared here is only a slice of it. Little by little as they say. This particular work is watercolour on acrylic on prepared coloured Art card. It started life in 2017, and was transformed a month or two back. Dang heap of hours in this, in both layers. This work is sensitive to water, and to grease. It will need to be framed under glass for display. Like all watercolours (and all art, virtually) it is also relatively light sensitive. It needs to be protected from strong light. Will be sent in a very strong box handmade (by the artist with love in his heart and a song on his lips) of recycled correlated carton board, and will arrive in perfect condition
Painting:Watercolor on Cardboard
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:11.7 W x 8.3 H x 0.1 D in
Frame:Not Framed
Ready to Hang:Not applicable
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Ships From:Spain.
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Abstract Pointlessism from a pointless abstractor "I sometimes feel I have something to say, I never want to communicate this." taking doodling seriously, since the get go. Born under a bad sign, next to a world record slag heap, not far from where Paul Hogan would launch his famous larger than life aussie character onto the world stage in the first Crocodile Dundee movie, this escaped aussie, this nomad who never travels but who has never lived in the same town for any length of time, this layer of legends this miser this nob-end this shine on you crazy nightmare. The man known as @spaingaroo and legend in his own lunchbox thinks he's so important that he gave up his life to hide away and paint until it means something. It still seems to mean nothing, and the dogs seem pretty disappointed that we don't jet around the globe, taking in French poodles on the Champs Elisses, or at least riding through Paris in a sports car, with the warm wind in our hair. At the age of twenty seven, he realised he needed to go to art college, with the warm self assurance of your normal child prodigy. Trouble was those years between said child prodigy and then. lost, lost, doing stupid things going to med school before flunking out in a championship way, to spend his time on wine women and song, before suddenly waking up as an artist again. The system took him in again a decade later, against their better judgement, and ended up spitting him out with a BA in Visual Arts and a raging workaholism. Ripe for rapid burnout after shooting for the stars, he instead got sidetracked by the wiff of a señorita and ended up deciding to take a leap off the edge of the known world and washed up in Spain. Still here. Paints or draws or masturbates obsessively, every single day. Often puts a month or more of those days into a single small artwork. Considers himself completely insane, but somehow still basically high functioning. Against all odds and inner turmoil he continues to surprise us at each turn, or at least the us that he imagines giving a shit. And not really surprise so much as pity. He says his work is about the inside of his head, which there are no words for. Even if sometimes the artwork is made of words, it's not, let me assure you. Those words are not there, and they express nothing. And that's not as mad as it seems, as nothing is as it seems with this guy.
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