I believe chaos is one of the main creators of the bizarre, even chaos as pain can influence the creation of something that will distract. For myself, when the world was in chaos, I saw a shift in the work I was creating, a nonsensical style that I had adopted to help my brain cope.
Now that I have explored the ‘strange’, I realized just how beautiful it is and how much I can create. With the strange I have control to produce whatever I want with no barriers, which feels incredible against reality where 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, the idea must be new. However, they all still manage to link together with their bright color schemes, coupled with bizarre and strange appearances.
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, as I try to find the beauty in an image that could only be composed from my own mind.
I normally wait for an image to appear in my mind that gives me the feeling of excitement to then go on and create it. If it doesn't give me that zing, then I see no point in producing it, as it is not good enough. Although my paintings really never come out the way I envisioned them in my mind. 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.
I wonder myself if my art is just weird for weird sake, though I don’t think it is. I believe being strange is the brain’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 or understand the chaos presented its way. The bright colours make the scenes less morbid and their strange lines distract away from the world’s harsh reality.
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