The Big Guys

So here are the two most "monumental" pieces Ive done recently. Each being basically completed live, with the exception of some minor additions to finalize the pieces done in my studio. I'm not entirely sure how I feel about them. I like them a lot. I think they are a great step forward, in general, for me. But at the same time, I'm worried the "style" of them is going to be something that just makes everything look the same. I don't want to fall in this trap of liking these two, having others like them, and continue to create the same work with different composition and color for the next sixty years. I've been realizing a lot more recently that I've been getting bored with artists that continue in the same style, and while i have been finding "styles" more particular and unique, I'm not whatsoever interested in creating the same type of work.

Similar inspiration? sure. Similar aesthetics? sure. Similar technique? sure.

But what I don't want to do is to pump out work that is interchangeable. I want all the work to be good and "me," but I don't want people to look at a series and think "well,  he made them so we could buy whichever one...they're all basically the same." It's that across-the-board, lack of investigation that really turns me off of many artists I see around here, and a constant between those artists always seems to be that they have this "style" or process to their work. While the subject, composition and color are different, everything is so setup, planned out, known before hand, and "staged" that the work loses it's "artistic quality" and basically becomes a big pretty poster, advertising the look of that particular artist. I fear that such a unique look can trap an artist and it's something I'm legitimately afraid of. The last thing I want to be is an artist who found his best thing at age 23 and spent the rest of his life devaluing it to the point of mass-production...

I'll figure it out eventually I suppose, but its not gonna be easy...what about art ever is.

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