Water Under the Bridge Painting

My INSPIRATION for this piece was my model, my love for nature as well as my love for the history and future of mankind. The model's entire body is tattooed with natural shapes, vines and flowers. His nose is an insect. Parts of his anatomy have been replaced with bulbs and roots. He is immersed and rooted in nature by virtue of the tattoos. He has shed his clothes to be even closer to nature. We can see on the blazer from a past life that his lapel pin is a gold metal spider. Through drips and blobs of paint and the more intentional drawn vignettes throughout we can see various figures from past centuries such as, an 18th Century village, a Victorian couple in a horse drawn carriage, an ancient Chinese fisherman and so on.They represent the past-water under the bridge-if you will, The painting as a whole, however, represents a future utopia where mankind has truly melded with nature. I hope that VIEWERS WILL FEEL the same exhilaration that I felt for nature,mankind and our history and future while painting and also uplifted by the wonderful possibilities for the future if we live in harmony with nature. TECHNICAL MATTERS: I chose the meandering, dense style of drawing and painting to mimic the indirect course of natural evolution. I let myself be guided by the shapes created by brushstrokes or drips in some cases and other times my drawing skill. I used acrylic paint with a retarder to slow down the drying time so it would drip and spill more readily to suggest the variuous drawings and so I could paint wet on wet. The painting is framed in a white gallery floating frame and is ready for hanging.

Painting:Acrylic on Canvas

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:22 W x 28 H x 2 D in

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