Arising from a piece I created called Mechanoreceptors back in 2012, Candy’s Candid Chaos was recently formed. I have been wanting to continue working on the female form in combination with my arabesque and mosaic designs. A lot of unexpected synchronicities occurred in the process of creating this piece.
I selected the silhouette from a picture of a nude female and placed my drawing, Mechanoreceptors, behind it. I unwittingly created a background for her form without knowing that it would become the background later. Then I selected the design filled silhouette and placed it on the background as the foreground. I’m enjoying it because of how the image, as a whole, merges together nicely due to the color combinations, and the intricate mosaic pieces.
The head of the woman looks like it has a gust of wind, or a breeze, wrapping around it. The circular shape circumscribing her middle torso fits together nicely with the left hand border and the rest of the background.
As a whole, this piece looks like it’s more random, rather than premeditated and organized by your average artist. The unexpected results from chaos and experimentation are what I have practiced for many years now. I feel this piece exemplifies that well. I named the female Candy in this piece. I imagined that Candy enters a world of chaos sometimes so that she can merge with its infinite, less defined nuances of imagination and space.
Chaos, being the original state of creation, gives rise to inchoate forms as they seek more and more definition as time unfolds. In this rather undefined state, Candy seeks a candid exposure of her multifaceted expressions.
As an artist, I have found the female form to be one of the most enjoyable forms to study and master drawing and painting. I gather endless inspiration from the female form. It seemed appropriate to me to add a hint of a story behind the female forms I sometimes use in my art so as to add a dimension of depth and character. I would like to ask some of my female friends some stories they’d be willing to share with me so I can expand upon them with my art and my writing.
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