Art From Friday

I spent some time doing art last night (I know...hard to believe huh?) and came out with a few good pieces...and one pretty different one.

These two small ones, Arches and This Must Be the Place, are about 12x12 on panel, and are individually simplistic in their construction. Arches is, simply put, a contact print of a painting I was working on. The black and red weren't really doing it for me on the large piece, and so I figured I'd see what the texture looked like on a smaller surface...

I just like the simplicity of the images origin and the ambiguity of the piece. It could very well be abstract splatters, a detail of a larger piece, abstracted people, beings, or forms...the narrative is endless and very short all at the same time....and I think that is the main feeling i get from both these smaller works.

This second piece, This Must Be the Place,  is similarly simple and complex. The piece and image was made by arbitrary and random scratching, hammering, slicing, stabbing, and scraping...followed by one purposeful circular shape near the top center. I've struggled as to what this is. A head...or a balloon...maybe both. Either way, I believe it has a similar message of self-realization or acceptance.