For an image previous to the creation of this one, I titled Opening. It is titled Opening for the obvious reason of the text you see at the upper right hand corner of this picture. This one is titled Close Opening however. This is because it is a closer selection of an area I wanted to focus in on and embellish from Opening.
The foundation drawing that Opening and Close Opening came from is Wrecked Tangles (After the Crash) A1. To refresh you on my After the Crash series, it is a continuation on the Wrecked Tangles theme, which started in 2011 with my Wrecked Tangles (Encircled) series. Like the Encircled series, the After the Crash series are grouped alphabetically. Visit my Art of eVan Facebook page to look at what I have completed for the Encircled series.
Wrecked Tangles (After the Crash) is meant to give structure and meaning for after the economic fall that is due in the United States soon. I have been a reader of Martin Armstrong’s economic forecasting blog for about three years now, and his analyses of capital flows is top notch quality. I recommend following his work for further insight into how he has found a way to measure economic cycles and their inevitable and unalterable patterns. Currently, we are in a stage where we are on the precipice of collapse here in Western countries. The collapse that is due to begin will start at the end of October, 2015, according to Armstrong.
We are at the end stage of a cycle here in the Western world. This does not mean the end of the world, but its effects can be seen in the basic breakdown of the institutions of our society. What I’m doing with the Wrecked Tangles (After the Crash) series is giving an abstract and artistic catalog to the various stages of collapse, entropy, and change that have befallen us all.
The stressed, weathered, and punched out text, objects, shapes, and colors are supposed to communicate things that are old, worn out, forgotten, and thrown away. My intent is to inspire people to not throw their junk and trash away, but, first, to try and come up with creative ways to re-use them—even artistically. Many artists turn junk and trash into art nowadays anyways. Why not explore this trend?
I just am not satisfied with the results I’d obtained from the After the Crash A series so far. Even the foundation drawing irritates me. It just was not compositionally ordered well enough. This may come as a surprise to you, since it obviously looks like I revel in the chaos of entropy, splatters, near-spastic hatch-marks, and so forth. While this is true, I invite you to also consider the subtle order that can be found in chaos if you look for it. That’s really what artists do anyways—look for orders, patterns, and ideas not considered before.
Chaos is not an absolute state, just like order isn’t. It’s merely a polarity to order. There are so many stages of change within the continuum of chaos and order, but, ultimately, I believe there is a hidden order even in the most chaotic of patterns. Mathematicians, for example, have found patterns in white noise. Perhaps there is a teleology to the rhythm of the universe after all, and my Wrecked Tangles series provide a visual eschatology for this current, and minute end stage to a cycle we are in within a grander scheme.
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