Interdimensional Part 1
This year was a relatively productive year in the realm of art compared to previous years. I attribute that shift to ultimately hitting burnout and taking a step back a few months into hopping into the world of twitter where things are not funged and tokens are non fungible. When I joined that space I didn't have a plan and things quickly became overwhelming personally and I realized I had to do some additional personal work. I feel like the past several years have been realizing that I need to unburden myself and also unlearn a lot of things I was taught. This is where this next collection of art pieces comes into play.
I'll start with the one piece that took me the longest and then will cover the others. I started with this piece years ago, not sure exactly when but in my mind I would say about 5 years ago. For years I have painted pictures with the subject screaming and I always found it interesting the individual takeaways others get when looking at pieces like that. Ultimately the subject has always been screaming because of the frustration of being misunderstood. Oftentimes I felt that people never understood the things I said and it's a genuinely frustrating feeling just wanting to be heard and people seemingly just wait for their turn to talk instead of actively listening and having constructive discourse.
I created a few sketches in college where an angel would be losing their wings inspired by the song by Rob Dougan Furious angels. I ultimately did not turned those sketches into paintings. It wasn't until I learned about Labeling theory, if a person is labeled as a deviant by society they are more likely to engage in deviant behavior, that looked at myself and realized what effect that had on me. It even put into perspective a lot of my doubts were things that were told to me when I was younger that I internalized. I had my own foot on the brakes wondering why I wasn't moving.
Art was a ways of me making peace and for a long time I was in an environment that did not support that. My artistic interests have never been limited to one medium, I had music classes in elementary and middle school and I was taught by a band when I was 16 in keyboard and bass. I've had an interest in video production and I have had an interest in creating drawing and paintings. For a long time I was always told I was doing too much and I had to pick only one thing. It messed with me because it was hard to pick one thing. Getting into NFTs and encountering other artists I realized I didn't have to pick one and I could find ways to combine them which ultimately is something that I have been trying to figure out for years.
This painting represents that to me. It represents both what you hear and what you internalized and ultimately project as other people's thoughts. This is why two heads are blowing smoke and the other two aren't. However, that doesn't matter to the subject, it's all the same from their perspective.
I also didn't just want this next piece to be a still image, my first collection of NFTs are paintings that I love but in navigating the Twitter verse I wanted to do things with my pieces that become an experience. This is why I learned to glitch using audacity, I felt that glitching is something that could represent the flaws of perception. Our memories aren't perfect, sometimes we combine events, people and ideas. The negative talk you might have heard as a child becomes negative self talk. The people who in your mind are holding you back is just your foot on the gas pedal and the brake at the same time.
For music I purchased Royalty Free Loop packs through Magix Music maker. What caused this painting to get put into production hell for so long was the composition. The smoke was a this year idea and before that I didn't know what else visually to use that would connect everything. This piece will be coming soon to Opensea.
