Today's exploration is titled 'Feels Like A Tangled Web'. This finds its roots in an exploration of patterns that we tend to find ourselves in over and over again. I was talking to my friend and fellow artist Arjan Tupan about how I tend to find my thoughts and emotional explorations get darker and darker as I go deeper into any publicly facing art/poetry challenges I put to myself on social media. Day 10's artwork is an exploration of that pattern and how I can break free from it.
Series 'Free Expression'.
Express yourself. It is therapeutic.
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Free Expression is a series of abstract paintings (occasionally layered with poetry) titled Free Expression. The series aims to bring out the inner child in anyone interacting with the art during its creation or after. Embedded in each work are a few common elements from the artist's culture: The colours palette for each piece is inspired by the vibrant colours from the traditional handicraft of phulkari, which is a practice of hand woven tapestries worn by women from the state of Punjab in India. The emotions/thoughts expressed in each work are summed up in an inscription written in Gurmukhi (Punjabi) script and also in binary code, as a tribute to the digital nature of these works. And as a play on the idea that the algorithm/AI cannot read emotion or truly understand art (so to read the emotion underlying each piece in binary may help). And lastly, the 'Free Expression' motif, which shows expression locked up in a box... Are we truly free to express ourselves? Do we speak and create from an authentic place? Do we have room for our inner child to play? Does our society, our culture, our politics, our training and even our conscious mind allow us to express freely?
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I was talking to my friend and fellow artist Arjan Tupan about how I tend to find my thoughts and emotional explorations get darker and darker as I go deeper into any publicly facing art/poetry challenges I put to myself on social media. Day 10's artwork is an exploration of that pattern and how I can break free from it.
Series 'Free Expression'.
Express yourself. It is therapeutic.
ZOOM IN TO SEE ALL THE LITTLE STORIES AND DETAILS.
Free Expression is a series of abstract paintings (occasionally layered with poetry) titled Free Expression. The series aims to bring out the inner child in anyone interacting with the art during its creation or after.
Embedded in each work are a few common elements from the artist's culture:
The colours palette for each piece is inspired by the vibrant colours from the traditional handicraft of phulkari, which is a practice of hand woven tapestries worn by women from the state of Punjab in India.
The emotions/thoughts expressed in each work are summed up in an inscription written in Gurmukhi (Punjabi) script and also in binary code, as a tribute to the digital nature of these works.
And as a play on the idea that the algorithm/AI cannot read emotion or truly understand art (so to read the emotion underlying each piece in binary may help).
And lastly, the 'Free Expression' motif, which shows expression locked up in a box...
Are we truly free to express ourselves? Do we speak and create from an authentic place?
Do we have room for our inner child to play?
Does our society, our culture, our politics, our training and even our conscious mind allow us to express freely?