The Structure of Passion (version 4)

I created this image back in April, 2013, but this variation of the series hasn’t been seen yet. The previous version you see in this album is version 2. I was playing around with flipping the image around so that the image would appear in the lower left quadrant of the picture plane, but I decided against doing that for now, as it would alter the series enough that it could be rendered as a new series. I didn’t want to make a new series, so I kept its situation as I had originally arrived at with it.

The obtaining of structures and engine diagrams off of the internet was involved in the process of making it. Engine power is merely symbolic of what many people understand as power. Organic powers, and psychic powers, on the other toenail, aren’t as readily understood as power.

Yet, at the essence of everything that moves is power. What really is power? Well, we understand at least that power is movement so far.

There is some depth to this picture as dimensional qualities were expressed pretty well in the structures and diagrams. The fact that they were superimposed on top of the rectangular structures–which form the base layer consisting of the drawing for my Wrecked Tangles (Encircled) U series, lying in the background with splashes of color–gives them another dimension of depth.

Layering is a fun process of creation, as it challenges an artist to allow the initially unrelated images to come together in one picture plane. One way to describe this is how one color, such as red for example, needs to be distributed–mostly unevenly, yet proportionally–throughout a picture in order to help give the picture a sense of harmony or unity.

Contrasts are another thing to play with, say, for example, sharp angles or smooth curves, or contrasting colors. The spaces in between, however, function as the subtle and unnoticed unifiers. As my high school art teacher used to tell me “space is magic.”