In this piece, I’m looking for shapes that arise from combining two or more individual works together into one piece. Interesting, unexpected results arise from my playful experimentations. It reminds me of community billboards on college campuses outside. There are so many pieces of paper stapled on top of layers of previously posted pieces of paper, and they all have different degrees of erosion and decomposition having been exposed to the weather.
I used New Morals, the piece I recently posted, and Interleukin, the piece that began my ball-point pen Micro-Chimerisms project back in 2008 in this amalgamation. This work looks like it’s been aggressively dealt with by someone or some force that was ruthless enough to scrape over it leaving it in the state that you see now. Perhaps the person who ran roughshod over it was interrupted by another person or force and was left laying in the condition you see here.
Anyway, the force that left it—be it nature or human—I imagine left it as a mess with an intriguing design; unintended, of course. Though I ultimately made this image, I still sometimes like imagining stories behind what created them in order to generate more amusement, excitement and wonder. Maybe a combination of weather and a manual laborer worked there impersonal energies upon this picture plane. One could almost imagine that this is a bird’s eye view of a worksite where piles of dirt rest waiting for laborers to shovel them into wheel barrows and make deliveries to other areas. Meanwhile, stages of snow, rain, and wind visit the site every so often, and leave it slightly more tattered than before.
I titled this piece Oriole Radiation because it looks like something is emitting or radiating from the yellow lips near the lower left of the picture plane. An oriole is a colorful bird found in the Midwest and Northeastern states of the US. I thought it was fitting because they are song birds who sing in the Spring, thus radiating sweet chirps and warbles. Oriole is similar to the word “oral.” I was going to use the word oral, but then I decided to word associate it with oriole. Maybe the message here is a beautiful cry for help.
Art of eVan 