I’d recently purchased some gel pens at a warehouse store, and, in order to placate the pens’ desires to express themselves on some paper media, I set out upon drawing something new and random. I didn’t realize, however, that most of the pens have sparkling and metallic ink in them. I wasn’t seeking this kind of ink in the first place, but I just decided to roll with what I purchased and see what I could do with them.
This is the first drawing that I produced with those pens. You can’t really tell that the ink has sparkling and metallic qualities to it. I thought that the scanner would pick up these effects after scanning the drawing on to the computer. I’m not phased by this however. It’s basically the colors that I was after in purchasing the gel pens. After all, there are 100 pens included in the set. I couldn’t pass up the deal they were offering for them, sparkles or no.
I’ve been wanting to create some more of my Microchimerisms (TM), and this image you see here is the latest effort in that direction. I got the idea of a “chimerism” from my studies in the medical field, as well as the association it has with mosaics and mosaicism. Mosaics are basically little pieces of colored stone that are assembled together into a coherent work of art. Traditionally, mosaics are found in early Christian and Byzantine art.
Mosaics in the medical field refer to cells that come from a single zygote. In other words, different types of cells that come from the same individual, thus making up a structure, organ, or system. Chimerisms, refer to the presence of cells from different origins, put together as amalgamations for systems, organs, or even organisms. In fact, the ancient mythological Greek Chimera comes from this notion, being a beast with heads, tails, and feet from different animals.
The chimerisms I’m creating, as pieced together mosaics, comprise inanimate, abstract beasts, if you will, that accost the viewer with intricate detail and meticulous character. In this piece, I pixelated dots in between some of the mosaic bits, thus creating a sutured appearance. When you see someone who has undergone surgery, they often have stitches around the sight that was operated on, and the tiny dots I finished this image up with remind me of that.
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