Disrupted Space is a question, aiming to prompt discomfort, confusion, any reaction as it's answer. Taking from Vincent Van Gogh, I attempt to show pain and form through color, using thick strokes and unrefined lines to push the ideas of messiness and confusion. The series is just that, a series, meant to show the devolution of our behaviors, our views on death, and its totality. Before each piece, I must find the darkness, the death in the world, and censor the gore for a more sensitive audience. For, if the art is simply gore, who would be watching but a few. As well, I aim to demonstrate our fragility, using produce and other human-made products to show locale, age, and graphic imagery under the veil of destruction. But not death, so overtly. This topic holds importance, as a lot of time goes into dying. First, the eating stops. The skin discolors. Then sleep, then passing. Yet humanity seems to die, more often than not, explosively. And still, we turn away. I want you to look.
And, with the death censored, people are more willing to.
"I guess that's it."
Life is very fragile. People do not react well to death, and often they try to push it out of their minds. They can't face it head on. And to some, people are nothing but blood watermelons. So, I've created this censored version of death, which will appeal to the cynic as well as the lover. Compare the sketch and final product. I want it to have this discomfort surrounding it. Black exclusions, flow to the strokes, lots of texture as I enjoy.
What does death mean to a human being? And how do we recognize it? My theme, the fragility of life, goes beyond these ideas. What I really ask- Do we seek it out? I take from Vincent Van Gogh and paint emotionally, though the subjects have true color and shape. The flow in starry night, mixed with the Jaggedness of something I want to call Image disruption serves to deliver my message. Where is the focus? Does this disorientation lighten the mood or clear the confusion? Or does it just increase the interest...