To Be Human Print

This painting comes from a collection of 22 acrylic paintings. The creative process included cutting three collections of about 50 paintings into pieces to recreate new art. Each painting has a combination of three or more paintings incorporated into one. That makes each work very unique in its expression and style. It was inspired by reinventing my artistic style by using my old paintings to create a more contemporary style. The process was the beginning of the evolution of my work. 'To Be Human' shows four layered figures of different emotions, even though their facial expressions and feelings are obscured or completely hidden from the viewer. The human figure however is expressive in their body language. It depicts there is emotion in hidden emotion, because we are all emotive beings, experiencing similar feelings of love, joy, happiness, bliss, pain, hurt and sadness. Despite genders, emotions are one of the many things that connect us as humans. The painting is acrylic and ink on paper in a collage. The human form is significant in understanding weight, balance and symmetry. It was intended to be experimental work by playing around with those elements in a fauvist style.