#positive negative

[strawbearbean]

mr man! mr soot!!! i actually quite like drawing his funny little trench coat a lot more than i thought :) 

i know there is discourse about whether he’s a villain or not, i’m not trying to make a statement about that! it’s mostly because i rewatched this stream today n like. that line did me an ouch a lot more than i expected it to :( 

as always wishing you nothing but the best! i hope you can see something in your favorite color today and smile a little!

image description under the cut :0

it’s a waist-up drawing of wilbur in a very dark brown, a light orange, and white! kinda um soft-looking because that’s the vibe i was going for. wilbur’s got his revived fit so like the white streak, open trench coat, sweater and bandaged arm thing! he’s looking sorta sheepishly into the camera with his hand up like he’s pointing at himself or scratching his face nervously (to be very honest idk which one i was going for). i played around with positive/negative space so that his sweater and trench coat kinda mold into a scene of wilbur’s silhouette in pogtopia. he’s looking up and crying, surrounded by a bunch of buttons. there’s a lil bit of text that reads “are you trying to make me feel as bad as i did in pogtopia?” and yeah!

[emblakaridotter]

[slcvisualresources]

where do we go that we know of (toendepi kwatinoziva), 2014

Screen print on paper

39 2/5 × 27 3/5 

Virginia Chihota’s paintings occupy a space between reality and dream where she is able to work through responses to personal relationships. Her starting point, a blank sheet of paper, becomes the boundless world at the start of a new relationship, whether romantic, religious or professional, and she uses paint and ink to impose the limitations onto it that are always encountered as a relationship progresses. Through these emotional processes the technical form as well begins to explore the dichotomies of strength and weakness, opacity and transparency. In her view positive and negative are two sides of the same coin and neither can exist without the other, an understanding of which can help us to use the negative to nurture the positive. Having moved to Tripoli, Libya in 2012, the Zimbabwean native is inspired by her personal relationships and the reoccurring themes of isolation and cultural dislocation, which fuel her highly introspective works. Most recently, the artist’s experiences of relocation, marriage and motherhood have influenced how she moves through the world and interacts with the people in it. And in her paintings Chihota picks up and dangles her subjects, like a puppeteer, into uncomfortable and unfamiliar blank spaces, creating a precarious vulnerability.

[arttentacle]

Cut these cute Chikadees out of paper, put them up and now they are casting shadows on the wall.

[wardancefm]

Track of the Day; 4/4/17

Positive Negative - Positive Noise, 1982

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lo6rIyFDI3w

[bestfuckinmusic]

Detestation / Positive Negative Split EP - 1998

Interesting one! Two great crusty bands, one from Portland Oregon, one from Finland. Great split, just too short!

[eternallyfleeting]

St Ives