Tri-Iteration (version 1)

Is it time for some therapy for non-physical beings bound and whipped by the addictive pleasures of the flesh? Well, whatever. Apparently, art therapy is the thing critics and journalists like belittling and criticizing as of late. I sort of don’t blame them due to all the coloring books for adults that even Wal-Mart now sells. If I were more paranoid, I’d say that centralized PR firms caught on to my doodling after observing me from all the surveillance cameras around every corner for the last few years.

I would work on larger more extensive art projects, but, for whatever reason, I’ve been condemned to doodle on scraps of paper glued together into collages. I’m becoming cooler and cooler with that as the world’s years hammer away at my trembling heart. It’s cool; I needed to develop some courage. I hope I’ve gained a thread of it from a badge of courage awarded from heaven.

Anyway, I titled this piece Tri-Iteration because of the repeated lower-case i’s in the lower part of this abstract illustration. An iteration is a repeated utterance. This drawing is basically the foundation drawing for my Wrecked Tangles (After the Crash) J series. Besides the i’s, included in this picture is a t and an H. I suppose you political hacks could find a hidden connection there between the letters I incorporated herein, and current events.

Maybe my unconscious mind was trying to tell me and everyone else something. I wasn’t consciously trying to intend a message. In fact, this drawing was an attempt on my part to escape my over-thinking, analytical mind. Hence, “art therapy.” It allows me to rest my left brain, and enter the playful, experimental, careless regions of my right brain. Having been credentialed as a Registered Health Information Technician lately, I have been trained to think more scientifically, quantitatively, and rationally. I’m glad the artist self within me hasn’t been completely gutted by this world.

What I note to you about this drawing with pens, pastels, diluted acrylic, and collaged pieces of paper is that I used two new agents as transformative properties in it. I used salt and rubbing alcohol to help weather and distort the colors of dust and magic marker. In previous Wrecked Tangles drawings, I had struggled to make the wrecked parts of the angles and lines mimic nature’s and time’s characteristic features of entropy, weathering, stress, and crumbling.

I first made the frame around this piece solid colors with no interference, but then I decided it needed some pocks and perforations to give it a distressed look. So I copied a selection of the pocks, points, and perforations inside the image and stretched them over to the frame. I was satisfied with that result. It can be changed to solid if you want that format. I can also make the image as a print without any pseudo-matting so that you can get it framed yourself if you so desire.