Tungsten Street (version 1)

In my attempts to salvage this series into something I felt more satisfied with, I decided to zoom in on some of the details composing the multi-layered surfaces of previous manipulations. The details look random and natural enough to escape the overly controlling conscious mind, and that is part of the reason why I wanted to reveal the nakedness of losing control in this manner through an expression of art.

You can see random words and letters strewn about in a semi-orderly fashion, though they don’t necessarily form sentences for comprehension however. I’m attempting to show a roughness, and crudeness; a child-like, though almost brutal truth. Stress is exhibited throughout the picture plane here. It’s a panorama of texture and media.

I thought of the title for a moment, and saw the diagram of a tongue in the lower left hand corner of the image. The upside down word “Latin” can also be seen in the upper left hand area of the picture. Latin and tongues obviously associate with language and linguistics, so I associated this with the sound of the word “tungsten.” A street plasters its way across the picture in a crook-neck fashion, and I thought of all the names that pass you by when you drive or walk down a street passed intersecting streets. Hence, the name “Tungsten Street” became pertinent in my mind as a title for this piece.