Art of eVan

This piece, yet another electronic hybrid, was derived from my painting called Of Which I Am a Part. I’ve been wanting to integrate some of my mandelic art works into hybridized amalgamations. You saw some of these attempts in Concomitant Comets within this album.

Before using the circular designs within this image for the material for a new hybridized image, I decided to just work out some of the issues I had with the original painting. Here is the original painting as a short-cut for you to compare real quick: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=216914361667200&set=a.216695921689044.60872.171452642880039&type=3&theater

Part of the left hand side of the original painting feels like it’s missing. Originally, I actually intended that effect, as I wanted the viewer to feel like he or she was looking at a mandelic design more closely. In this image you see here, you can now feel like you have stepped back, and can enjoy the fertile space surrounding the center of interest.

I also added some extra dimension with dark hues of blacks, violets, and blues. This gives the image an effect of looking at some alien construct up in the night sky. There is also a mesh of wire-like constructions connecting the junctions of the design together, which gives the visual representation of a network.

While mandalas are a common theme in many forms of art throughout history, I haven’t been able to find any done quite in the style that I create my own personal mandalas in. I want to share with you this style that I’ve been working on for practically my whole life so as to touch the keys on your soul like a strange, never-seen-before musical instrument.

While I did post a similar image here, the original piece that was part of the material that I used for this piece is called Lunar Equipment, and it can be seen a few posts earlier to this one. I felt that the moths didn’t have enough space to fly around in, and this inspired me to make another piece in which there is more depth, layering, materials, and space incorporated herein.

I also broke the individual spaces that each moth was flying in from the original piece and adjusted their bearing so that they look like they aren’t flying perfectly in ninety degree angles from each other.

I put a glowing circular shape slightly off center to the upper right in order to give more dimension to the world of moths, as moths have tendencies to fly wildly around sources of light, circling around, and around, and around. Almost like lunatics.

You can still make out some of the text that was applied as a layer to the original image transversing the moths in their individual spaces. I think the text is relevant, in a way, as it suggests for people to question, and argue with their opponents, or sources of authority, instead of just obeying, and blindly circling around supposed sources of power without any critical thinking.

This version is a derivative of the Calyces series. Calyces is the plural form of calyx, and calyx means cup in Latin. Poiesis means a condition or state of creation. I learned of the word poiesis when I was learning some medical terminology extracted from the word hematopoiesis, which means the production of red blood cells from the marrow of bones.

There are simple shapes in this series that resemble cups, and it looks like an elaborate assembly line producing cups from a mythological manufacturing plant.

The original drawing was produced back in 2009 when I was working at Convergys. It was just black and white drawing, but I was able to to hyperbolize some color out of it through some digital filters after scanning it into the computer.

This image is made to be a print, and can easily be matted and framed. It’s a great image to have in a kitchen, or a bathroom, or a bedroom.

I was also thinking this image, and my other mosaic images, would be great as floor designs in atriums of museums, as main floors within custodial banks, or as wall designs on major hospital walls. I was also thinking that some laser technology integrated into a projector could be used to help slightly burn an image into a wall, floor, or area as a template in preparation for the work in filling out the design with whatever materials required to complete the project.

Meet Ida. I had been wanting to create some sort of monstrosity with a machine or device in combination with some human appendages and/or organs with an image. I just like the idea of creating new combinations of organic life, cybernetic life, and even immaterial life forms. I suppose this preference is associated with mosaicism, and chimerism. I hadn’t realized that the terms “mosaic” and “chimera” were related. And, furthermore, I had no idea that both of those terms have to do with biology. I thought that a chimera only referred to a beast from Greek mythology, and mosaics were from the Byzantine empire during the descent of the Roman empire. Mosaicism comes from the idea of cells and how cells on organisms create mosaic patterns. Chimerism obviously comes from the idea of combining multiple different animals and species into one beast. The mythological chimera is an example.

As you can see, I keep on pushing my Wrecked Tangles idea to the fullest extent that I can take it. It’s an attempt to prove to myself and the world that one or two of the most basic shapes–the circle and the square–can be used in near infinite combinations; sometimes with surprising results. I use certain techniques, however, to give a visual metaphor to this style for these series in order to help myself and my audience link them together with, hopefully, not too much confusion.

There is an eyeball inserted into a picture of a heavy duty flash-light. The eyeball was an image I obtained off of the internet, while the flashlight is an image I cut out from a magazine and pasted onto a primed piece of cardboard. The woman’s legs were also cut out from a magazine. I’m fulfilling, again, my notion of mosaicism, chimerism, and also hybridization. The idea of hybrid comes in because our culture is in the process of switching over from paper-based means of education, communication, and documentation to electronic means. This conflict manufactured by the societal push into more advanced computerization of human life allows me to use any media I want in order to create all kinds of new and wild ideas.

Hyperbole literally means an excessive throw in its root words. It looks like the exclamation mark is being thrown across the picture plane in this image I just created. It is part of the B series to my Wrecked Tangles (After the Crash) art project. My subconscious mind wanted to show you all a visual depiction of a hyperbole. A hyperbole is really an exaggeration, like when someone says “holy #%% #!,” or something like that. But a hyperbole is really more of an obvious exaggeration, assuming the listener has a sense of humor and isn’t too gullible.

The exclamation mark seems to be boomeranging across the picture plane, thus giving a visual description of overthrowing an exclamation. There is also the letter F embedded in between the various patterns and matrices giving the viewer’s subconscious mind something to ponder. Like, what does F refer to? Could it mean friend? Fool? Fly? Forecast? F–k? F could really refer to anything and, depending on the state of the viewer, one can project whatever mood one is in at any given time.

The overall intent is to create a sort of dream catcher, but for the physically awake mind. It gives some structure and order as a focal point for someone to gaze into while puzzling over life’s dilemmas. I hope that my viewers Find some conclusiveness to whatever issue seems to be ailing them. That is, if they want to. Some people like to hang on to their problems, as it gives them an excuse to continue a set of behaviors for what they feel to be purposes for survival, social standing, and for reproductive activities.

So, enjoy throwing your mental exclamations into this fine fraction of a matrix, and let the answers to your problems quietly come into your mind after letting them go into it.