I came across this community called 'Yellow Collective' on Farcaster recently. And they embody that 'Supporting Living Artists' vibe that made me fall in love with web3 in the first place. So, I found myself going deeper down the Yellow rabbithole, and fell into the Nouns community, who just celebrated their 3rd birthday a couple of days ago. And this piece of art is inspired by the Yellow Collective and a celebration of Nouns on their 3rd anniversary.

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Gurmukhi (Punjabi) script (top left) reads 'Peela' which translates to yellow.
Binary code on left middle reads yellow.

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Free Expression is a series of abstract paintings (occasionally layered with poetry). 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?

There's a glitch in the fabric of the matrix.
All my art starts off with a word or verse describing an emotion that I write on my blank canvas.This one started with the thought that 'there's a glitch in the fabric of the matrix'.
From here, I start to explore the imagery born of the raw emotion through free expression, flowing stokes, scratches, heavy textures and even further words and verses that may come up during the journey of my exploration.
Chaos. Random musings. A visual diarrhoea of emotions expressed in colours, textures and poetic/philosophical text.

The emotions/thoughts expressed in each work from this Free Expression series 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).

Punjabi/Gurmukhi text on the canvas reads 'Gadhbar' which translates to: 'Glitch/Problem'.

Binary code on the canvas reads: "Glitch"

Poetry on abstract digital art.

A musing about musing. An exploration on a digital canvas.
All my art starts off with a word or verse describing an emotion that I write on my blank canvas.This one started with a curiosity about the thought of a thought. The phrase 'A Musing'.
From here, I start to explore that raw emotion through free expression, flowing stokes, scratches, heavy textures and even further words and verses that may come up during the journey of my exploration.
Chaos. Random musings. A visual diarrhoea of emotions expressed in colours, textures and poetic/philosophical text.

The emotions/thoughts expressed in each work from this Free Expression series 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).

Punjabi/Gurmukhi text on the canvas reads 'Ik Soch' which translates to: 'A musing'.

Binary code on the canvas reads: "Musing"

Poetry on abstract digital art.