Here I am back again. This time with a little more chaos. I’d been hinting that I like clutter, randomness, and crudeness as expressions of art in some of my social media posts lately. And I had been developing this current style as well. You’ll notice Paul Klee’s influence on my style. I’m not ashamed to admit that his work deeply impressed me long ago, and I wanted to continue taking the line that he started for a walk as if he passed a torch to me.
The previous work, Obnubilators, I posted to this one, is an initial representative of the free hand, basic contour designs I’ve been working on. This work, I titled Deft Barrel, is an inversion of the black line however. I basically inverted the black to white, thus producing a ghost-like effect, associable to Kirlian photography. And that’s what I feel I’m doing anyways—capturing the impressions of ghosts who let me capture facets of their energy in works of art.
I drew my designs on a a collage I had prepared months ago. The collage involved cut-out motor diagrams, and text from various sources. I got some ink pens that bleed when water is applied to the paper the ink is drawn on. Some pens don’t bleed with water. Even acetone doesn’t dissolve it or make it bleed, so I have to test the pens I think I need before I buy them. I also applied some other colorful water-based pens so as to add to the psychedelia.
Art, to me, is a balance between mastering elements of control, and letting processes and developments take paths and lives of their own. I must be the one to initiate action, but most of the time I don’t have a complete vision in my head of the outcome. That’s the exciting part to me; I enjoy surprising myself with unintended results in art. Everything that surrounds me has the potential to be used for artistic purposes. I just have to engage whatever it is that’s around me with an art spirit.
Art of eVan 