Intersection: Fire and Air

As mentioned before, this is the first of what may or may not be a series of experiments with this composition. As far as painting technique, this one was done in a much more free-formed, expressive manner. The paint got a lot drippier and much less controlled, but I still think it works really well.
As far as colour choice, the red and the yellow are meant to represent two elements: fire and air, which are two complementary elements. The black and the white are meant to represent two opposite ends of a spectrum, whether colour, spiritual, or whatever you want it to be. The composition is again something I saw during an experience and what I interpreted to be the central intersection of an infinity.
Although it is the first of a series of experiments, I think it was a successful piece. It was also a gift for my boyfriend, Ben, who happened to share the said experience with me. He seems to love it and that what really mattered in the end anyway.

-a

The Yelling Hippie

While spending the past weekend in Woodstock, NY, we did expect to see our fair share of hippies, both old and new. However, it was the yelling hippie that drew the most attention. He is a strong advocate of the legalization of marijuana and really wanted everyone to know it.
"Marijuana doesn't kill people! Sugar kills people!" (that wasn't taken out of any sort of context, really)
"When you smoke marijuana you want to grow your own marijuana! Then you want to grow your own strawberries! And your own squash! And have your own chickens! And then everyone wants to come over and smoke your stuff!"
....I guess there's a radical for every argument.

The Day the World Vibrated

This one is from spring semester and was finished in May, but I wanted to post it anyway because it's one of my best works so far. It is my final project for Beginning Printmaking and was inspired entirely by the camping trip in April (the same experience mentioned in the last post). Unfortunately, the picture doesn't quite do it justice, but it's not terrible.
Anyway, here's what I've done....
The vast amounts of bright color you see are the product of collagraphs made with 3 separate plates. The black map that spreads over the surface was done was a photo litho. The circular shapes on the top and the bottom where done with a homemade rubber stamp.
Emerging from the center is the being of the electromagnetic spectrum: red, the most spiritually basic. As seen, the colours bleed out to purple, the most spiritual of all colours. It's hard to see in the photograph, but the patterns on the collagraphs and the form in the rubber stamp represent forms of vibrations and energy as I can understand them. And the map is the campground: my personal route through the universe on that particular day.

Intersection: Blue

This is my second completed painted this summer, which goes to show how productive the summer has been.

This painting is the second one of its composition, which is a representation of a visual I experienced in the beginning of April. It is a representation of one of the most sacred moments in time a space: an intersection beings, moments, things, or whathaveyous.
Personally, it is the intersection of infinity, which is all things, so it could be anything.
Blue and purple are the two most basic colors with the greatest amount of spiritual energy and white is a color of purity and, in this case, silence and ultimate peace.
Although you might think that such perfection should require a perfectly symmetrical composition (and, as you can see, this is no were near symmetrical and balanced) I felt it would lose its sense of humanity otherwise and it is a human made object.
This is just the second of what may become a series of paintings of this composition with various colors and maybe a perfectly symmetrical, measured composition.
It is always a process.
Oh, and as far as process and medium: oil applied with flat palette knife on canvas board

I am bending my brain in the 4th dimension of reality with paint and glue and ultraviolet light and circles and chemicals and wood and pictures and atoms and supernovas and 7/4 time and fire and air and trees and light and geometery and
on
and
on
and
on......

spiraling into infinity and back


back I'll be

with tasty treats
for your viewing pleasure

and my pleasure of creation.


-a