studies in painting three

Bending Dimensions of Reality

            Looking over the horizon, I see our humanity grow like an endless avalanche with more and more everyday without any fear in sight to be found. World’s clash of symbols of good/evil, pure/un-pure, and with nature versus industrialization. I question the viewer of what becomes more important to preserve, our feats of mankind or beauty that needs no modification?

            Perceiving perception in a two-dimensional box world of computers, phones, and televisions that keep the living driven by machines. Has depth in far-sighted vision been forgotten in western society from our forced need to gaze upon these screens giving us quick release from work driven society? This project is to combine an understanding and respect for nature/industrial living as they clash together on the canvas by the usage of the style, mixed media painting to depict my perceived visual life with an artistic touch made for visual pleasure as one ponders western living.

            Combining mediums from far to near to create an illusion of depth on the canvas. Working from low pigment transparent watercolor in the atmospheric background following layer by layer of perception landscape/industrial buildings towards the foreground. Working from gouache to acrylic and to oil paints with cascading mediums of thickness of paint/brushstroke will create this perception for the viewer to bestow in their mind.

            Wanting to take depth another layer deeper, using modeling past to create a physical aspect of creating depth on a canvas as painting might be classified as “sculpture.” In the foreground buildings and nature have a layer of modeling clay underneath with the more luscious oil paints to give the viewer closeness feel just as “real life.” Wanting to create this illusion of depth is for the study, viewer, and personal pleasure. Looking into a painting with multiple layers kicks thyself into a positive trance creating a story with no story to be institutionalized. Life is based through layers as we create labyrinths and ways to solve these puzzles/mazes going deeper in complexity/hardship to show our valiant efforts in life as Theseus did for Ariadne.

With music replicating life with deep complexity and universal love based on multiple self-clashing/ flowing layers reminiscent of these labyrinths that take an audience deeper and deeper creating a western derived story. Music goes hand and hand with visual art as much as a child needs a hand to cross the street. Consisting of several layers of replicating sounds to create a flowing story to be heard, but western living has accelerated this peace of the past simplicity in composers. Modern music is generally overthrown with clashing sounds and noise that would have been burned at the stake in past centuries, but as we rush with time an artist replicates current life consciously or subconsciously. An example of westernized sound fighting its very institution would be dub reggae, jazz, punk, and all electronic. With a stylistic incorporation of sound waves on the industrial foreground to design a metaphor for human interaction as we overlap our life levels together.

            The shape of the canvas is for aesthetic wall reasons as a shape other then another box is bestowed on a wall. As we combine convoluting lives of different cultures or squares as they become one and one can only think “outside one box.” The scale is large to replicate actual vision for the viewer and to keep them wrapped into a self-created story. With replicating buildings that are clarified as “Green Architecture” we remove from time driven beauty to show our feats of western production. Grab the Charging Bull of Wall Street by the horns and conquer to escape Babylon.