gom (they/them)Electric - acrylic on stone paper (240gsm), 29.7 x 42 cm
The difference between where you are, and where you want to be, can sometimes be quite painful. Disheartening. The good news is, firstly, that that kind of insight means you're really reflecting on your own picture-making practices (and their outcome, as it were). Furthermore, and secondly, it means you're being brutally honest with yourself, which is crucial to any kind of learning or evolving.
Well, be that as it may, that doesn't always help, does it?
Needless to say, my reflections on my picture-making this year has taken me to a very frustrating place; a place I need to liberate myself from. So I decided to paint something completely different from human heads and figures. And, indeed, liberating it was; such a great exercise for being more expressive, to experiment with textures, temperatures, and light, and overall to try to say more and different things. All without as high of a risk of losing the whole picture.
Besides all of that, it was also quite liberating to experience just how intimate and, in a way, personal this kind of painting can be. I mean, I love that kind of graffiti on worn-out little electricity boxes and whatnot. Everything about it. But perhaps mostly that it is a sign, at least to me, that there is a will to revolt against the destructive drudgery of normalcy. And that's comforting.
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The difference between where you are, and where you want to be, can sometimes be quite painful. Disheartening. The good news is, firstly, that that kind of insight means you're really reflecting on your own picture-making practices (and their outcome, as it were). Furthermore, and secondly, it means you're being brutally honest with yourself, which is crucial to any kind of learning or evolving.
Well, be that as it may, that doesn't always help, does it?
Needless to say, my reflections on my picture-making this year has taken me to a very frustrating place; a place I need to liberate myself from. So I decided to paint something completely different from human heads and figures. And, indeed, liberating it was; such a great exercise for being more expressive, to experiment with textures, temperatures, and light, and overall to try to say more and different things. All without as high of a risk of losing the whole picture.
Besides all of that, it was also quite liberating to experience just how intimate and, in a way, personal this kind of painting can be. I mean, I love that kind of graffiti on worn-out little electricity boxes and whatnot. Everything about it. But perhaps mostly that it is a sign, at least to me, that there is a will to revolt against the destructive drudgery of normalcy. And that's comforting.
#AcrylicPainting #Acrylic #Painting #NonbinaryArtist #VeganArtMaterials
