After the Crash (version E1)

The original drawing, for which almost all of which you see here, did not have the letter E in it. At first I thought that this would be the D series to my After the Crash, Wrecked Tangles, art project. But lo and behold! I logged on to Facebook and found that I’d already created a D series.

This indicates that I’ve put this project off for too long. I haven’t forgot about it though. I’ve been dreaming of completing it before the end of 2015, for which a projected crash in the dollar’s value is estimated by some economists.

So in order to give you the idea that this series is associated with the character E as a value, I decided to embed a digital E on top of the scanned drawing. I attempted to naturalize it as best I could after flipping it around to a backwards representation.

My letter! A lot can be said just about a mere letter! It also is the letter that starts my first name. Art of eVan is capitalized in this piece signifying a waypoint of completion. I feel this work is important in some way, as I’ve reached a degree of mastery with this style that has increased satisfaction.

I’d been bored and even repulsed by some previous series in this art project, as I started to standardize the process of drawing the originals. The process of standardization is common to many artists who fall into a niche with their work. So in order to reduce some of this repetitiveness, I started focusing on the colors I drew in each square or shape. There are a lot more subtleties that can be added to each corner that help to convolute some of the sterility and transform it into a detailed richness which can be explored upon multiple viewings.

The above outlines some of the challenge I consciously set out to grapple with in the beginning of the Wrecked Tangles art project. And that was to find as many different representations of the basic shape of the square, the rectangle, as well as the circle. The triangle is used in many works as well, but the primary shape I challenged myself with was the rectangle.