One of the good thing about series is that you are allowed to expand your ideas into many direction, under one theme. Or you could say in writing case, it elaborates your argument.
On this series, I wanted to explore on raw looking faces, a moment before passing out. I have interest in consciousness, which you might have sensed in a lot of my works. I often think of the last few seconds before one is passing out. Their pale looking skin, eyes shut, or swollen, bluish bruises. Consciousness (maybe) on the stage of in between. That was the idea behind this series.
The color tone was something quite new too, since I don't really put pink on my painting unless the red accidentally smudged over the white. Back then it was one top color I hated the most. Weird it does not seem to matter the older I get.
I use acrylic and I am not that type of artist who likes the trouble of pushing many colors out of tubes and leave it dry unused (acrylic mocks you from the distance) so I always make the palette to minimum colour variants, unless I want to go crazy with fast stroke abstracts. In this series I use three dominant colours, and one extra alternatively.
What I have noticed about painting in series is that out of cohesive characteristics naturally or deliberately performed, you still see slight changes. It is interesting because in my case those changes seems to be caused by a change of interest, mood, and sometimes, paintings I have recently seen quite intensely. Human constantly change their stage of mind and often I found it hard to re-perform a painting with a level of concentration as intense as the previous one. That's why I got to more understanding when they say every piece is unique, not just in terms of visual but also the energy performed in every piece of it. Some artist could set up their level of focus consistently, but I believe there is always change. That is just how unique layers of human's experience is!
This series were done in relatively short period of times. I have reversed psychology best works at me that if I loosen up a little and rely on a step at a time action, I tend to finish more than when my mind militarily command to not procrastinate.
Here are pictures of my paintings.
They are going to be exhibited on ARTas 2017 Singapore, along with my short animation. The exhibition picks " Changes / Flux" for its theme this year, and they see my works quite fitting! Heads up to their account here : https://www.instagram.com/artas2017/.
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