Thursday, April 21, 2011

Real People

Just gonna come right out and admit it...this piece started as a complete mistake. I had laid a ground to work on and was carrying some white paint to work on a different piece, but my awesome non-chalantness  allowed me to leave a GIANT drip of paint basically across the entire floor of the living room and, having art everywhere, across this piece of canvas as well. 

Luckily I refrained from my normal "wipe it off the canvas with your foot" instinct and cleaned the floor first, during which I actually came to like the random, accidental swiped of white. But it needed more. While the gesture was nice, it looked like a mistake...and what makes mistakes look like they are purposeful? MORE OBVIOUS MISTAKES!!!! 

and that was the first stages of creation here. Born out of lackadaisical paint spilling, "Real People (The Haze)" is about the clouding of perception or the indistinct nature of people. Which mark is the real mistake? Is anything(one) really all that unique?

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