Someone came up to me while I was making this image and smelled like a medicine cabinet. I actually thought “hey, I like the smell of that.” I don’t know what it was. Probably cough syrup or something. I decided to title this image Hey, I Like The Smell of That. For some reason, it makes me think of a person who thinks that in reference to another.
It looks like there is a cabinet in the background off the the right depicted rather psychedelically, connected by a dot and a line to the large, foreground form. The large foreground form looks like the head of a person. The fact that there is just one dot with a circle around it at the center of the large form makes me think of a cyclops.
The bigger idea here I suppose is visualizing the act of connecting seemingly disparate ideas, peoples, and events together in the truly nonlinear universe. But of course I could only crudely use linear lines to illustrate the notion of connections. I didn’t use a ruler to draw them though.
The colors you see in this image here are not the same colors used in the original drawing. The original drawing is “larger” than this one. I titled the original drawing Bear Thread. I selected only a few objects within Bear Thread and made this image. I’m thrilled to make all these different variations from single, original, traditionally created drawings, paintings, and collages.
I like how, when I start writing about things—anything—art—dreams—whatever, the “ice” melts with regard to the cluelessness I experience before writing. I often can’t come up with a single idea I want to write about in reference to the art I make immediately prior to attempting to write. Perhaps it’s my brain struggling to shift gears; and also the fact that I find myself trying to write at the very end of my day, late at night. Sometimes I just want to write bull-shit, like the mixed nuts with sea salt on them and the gummy bears I just chewed on. I didn’t eat that many, so I don’t feel so thwarted by guilt. I know people will find this paragraph vaguely irritating as a waste of their time, but I needed to write it for the exercise of writer’s block ice-breaking.
Like medicine, the colors in this image are candy-like. I have found it interesting how medicine and candy have so many similar visual characteristics. I wonder if the pharmaceutical industry intended that. You know, like Skittles, Nyquil, and Desipramine? I guess people like being pleased with the items, UFOs, liquids, and pilly willies they ingest. I’m hoping people also like ingesting my images with their eyes and finding neurological fulfillment therein, or derivatives thereof.
I can write anything here, and I like that. I don’t want to be limited. That is part of the non-literal message expressed in my work of art here. You see all the forms defying definite boundaries for the most part. I let the splotches, rubbing alcohol dribblings, and ink bleedings flow along paths of their own choosing, though I was the initiator of their expandings, distortings, and explorations. I found the drawing to be exploring itself as I stepped back and observed it at times.
Specifications:
Title: Hey, I Like The Smell of That (version 3)
Source mediums: Water-based ink, acrylic based ink, oil based ink, alcohol-based marker altered by acetone and rubbing alcohol on paper
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: 10/6/2017
Dimensions of print: 34 inches by 21 inches
Number of limited edition prints: 25
Contact me: artofevan@hotmail.com
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