Chaos must be one of the main creators of the bizarre; even chaos as pain can influence the creation of something that will distract. For me, when the world was in chaos, I saw a shift in the work I was creating: a nonsensical style, inspired by surrealism and Dada, that I had adopted to help my brain cope.

 

Now that I have begun to explore the ‘strange’ I realize just how beautiful it is and how much it can inspire me. With the strange I have control to produce whatever I want with no barriers. This feels incredible against a reality in which I have little to no control at all. Every one of my paintings must be different, whether it be in oil, acrylic or a mixture of mediums. However, they all still manage to link together with their bright colour schemes of blue, brown and bright pink, all helping to create an oversaturated image.

 

There are elements of surrealism in my paintings, as I am not trying to capture an accurate take on reality. Instead, I am showing the world through my mind's eye, the way in which my mind morphs and colorizes the things I cannot understand. I lean towards fantasy, trying to find the beauty in an image that could only originate from my own mind. I normally wait for a mental image to appear that gives me the feeling of excitement to proceed and create it. My paintings never really come out the way I envisioned them - however, I do believe this is a good thing, as I receive a second way of presenting my idea, a way I hadn't thought of, and over time I end up preferring it.   

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I wonder myself if my art is just weird for weird’s sake, though I don’t think it is. I believe creating these overcrowded and colourful scenes of chaos is the mind’s way of coping in a situation it cannot understand. That is what my art is about, the mind-altering reality when it cannot handle the mayhem that presents itself. As with Dr.Suess as my inspiration, His midnight paintings are beautifully morbid with their bright colours and strange lines that distract from the world’s harsh reality. This is my desire, to achieve what he did and create a world of my unconscious that shows the beauty behind over-stimulation and chaos.