I made the foundation for this image back in June, 2017. It’s a selection from the piece I posted and blogged about then titled Supplant. I titled this selection June Joinder. Three lines are joining a circular fiducial marker structure in the center lower left. They look like they could be composed of metal. They also make me think of some alien technology doing measurements on some earthly plant life as they scan a selection of organic matter.
Anyway, I had fun introducing a drawing I’d done earlier this summer with marker and ball-point pen on a manilla folder into a background of organic plant matter. The plant matter is just weeds I gathered from the backyard and scanned into digital documents. It’s the idea of every little detail being observed by an adjoined point of sense.
I’m noticing I’m taking a path opposite of the trending pop art craze. I read an article recently showing that people are looking at contemporary art in museums and galleries a lot more currently than they are looking at the more classical art movements. Even impressionism and post-impressionism are being ignored more by the younger generations.
Compared to the more classical art styles and movements, contemporary art is generally more simple in content, detail, and composition. Pop art is, of course, a great representative of contemporary art. I see pop art everywhere I look in current culture and society. I know what purpose pop art serves. It doesn’t require people to think, contemplate, and discover. It’s all just surface.
I just know from my own experience that anything my mind has to work at to understand frequently discourages doing so. There’s always so many more things my mind can consume that are easier to understand. A new word I don’t know, while I’m reading something, can often trip me up and discourage me from reading further. I surmise that this is generally the case with others.
But now that “the world” is a handheld device, it’s so easy to look a word up. And I often do so. I just gave that example in the above paragraph to describe a common challenge we all experience as mortals with limited abilities and resources. I think our current educational system and fast-paced world discourage noticing subtle nuances and details in our surroundings because so much information usually doesn’t serve someone else’s purpose.
So with my art, I put a lot of detail and nuance back into the picture plane. I want to encourage sensitivity to things usually ignored. I like how, over time, nature and natural forces overcome manmade things—including pop art. Pop art can be found in amusement parks and carnivals. I like imagining visiting an abandoned amusement park in the future that has been overtaken, to an artistic degree, by natural entropic forces.
Many pop artists like the mockery and worship pop art makes of itself. They seem to enjoy the irony of it, while profiting off the cultures of dumbshits educated to ignore vast experiences of nuanced perceptions. I like the impersonal mockery time and nature make of securely established elite pop artists and their pop art.
Specifications:
Title: June Joinder (version 4)
Source mediums: Ball-point pen on manilla folder digitally combined with digitally scanned organic plant matter
Print medium: Hewlett Packard printer ink from Hewlett Packard DesignJet Z2100 printer on Hewlett Packard print paper (Note: print can be made with archival paper and printer if requested)
Digital manipulation completed: 8/10/2017
Dimensions of print: 30 inches by 25 inches
Number of limited edition prints: 25
Investment of print not framed: $85.00
Investment of print framed: $425.00 (shipping included)
Contact me: artofevan@hotmail.com
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