19 May 2012

FORGIVE THYSELF



I was watching the movie Melancholia and found an interesting blog hue&andhum which allowed me to remember that I could think deeply once. I dug up a painting I started and finished it this week. I will be needing some suggestions to either know if I'm really done, and if I should continue this series, or even paint ever again. Two things I've realized while painting--I will never be a "clean" designer and I am quick to absorb energy from people around me. This was an exploration on texture, as I used different recycled pieces of upholstery samples and filtered through different emotions while placing my brush strokes over each one of them. It started out as a multicolored city-scape to an interruption of organic explosions to coating it with purity and exposing myself being flawed in decision. Phip came up with the title, and I think he was dead on.