Now That I'm Older

This is my newest piece. It's a big'n and I'm pretty excited about it. It has more drawing than anything I've done in a long long time and is so deep in it's markings and objects. I'm simply LOVEING the aesthetic so much that I won't fix that typo!

In all seriousness though, I'm really happy with how this turned out. This piece was made on top of another. A piece by an unknown artist, largely unfinished, but lending greatly to the depth and much of the background colors. It is meant to resemble the aesthetic of a cave painting...the title referring to the perceived advancement through age or time; the childlike, simple marking contradicting that notion. I suppose it speaks about the idea that we, as humans grow into better, wiser people, and, at least through my experience,  it doesn't work out like you always plan. In many ways, life gets tougher, more congested, more confusing...in others it becomes free and allows for you to embrace the childish eccentricities you have. In a more general sense, we become less trusting, more introspective. In a wider view, through history we have become more technologically intelligent, but spiritually distant and environmentally, and generally, destructive. We have grown and regressed. This piece tackles this idea. The "scaffolding" almost looking like a tower or building, representing advancement, but the unfinished nature, showing there is much to be done...the background showing through, even overlapping the tower at times, representing that which we have left behind or what we believe to have overcome....Enjoy...