Elpsis Boo Painting

This is a painting which is part of an ongoing Dadaist trilogy I am writing. Individual paintings are occasionally used as chapters of the novels. This form of writing and painting is akin to reaching a meditative dream state – recognising forms and images in the same detached way that the mind throws ideas into the maelstrom of one's dreams. It helps to reveal oneself to oneself. To rally against the violence of enforced repression; to preempt and undermine judgement from others who can never know what is behind another's eyes; the eyes being less a 'window to the soul' and more a mirror of the viewer's own prejudices. It is a non judgmental, pacifistic approach to the objective notions we all experience subjectively. I don’t write or paint things that have happened but things which have not yet happened. The pen and the images beat my thoughts to it. If we have time to think a thought, then it has already been rehearsed and analysed before we go to all the effort of writing it down or painting it; that way we can hide from ourselves; become complicit xenophobes of our own instincts. Within the writings of the Dada group one could often find scribbles / squiggly lines / and erratic changes of font. This all created a lovely syntax between the word as a representation of a thing or the word as a thing in itself (a picture). The purpose of painting certain chapters on canvas, as collages, is to produce in the reader (when reading the typed word) a true sense of colour in the text; a sense of urgency, a sense of abstraction, of life, of difference.

Painting:Acrylic on Wood

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:27 W x 40 H x 0.8 D in

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