/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>2424434
> I use random chance and restricted encounter as a method to subvert my own subconscious biases. For me a trashbin is a wonderful anthropological device.
Perfectly stated. I do the same, restricting myself to very few tools and methods (like creating change through heat) or materials (like limited palette, or working in one medium only when sculpting).
My entire studio is one great trash bin, leaving discarded items lying around - as soon as I get organized, I lose a lot of my initial drive. The chaotic should always be considered.

In my work transformation, creation, the transcendental and the incomplete has always served as important notions. I'm into eastern philosophy and occult mysticism, and I believe that the images we produced have very real consequences. I am also less concerned with creating boundaries between what's considered representational and abstract/non figurative. If I create an abstract painting, it will be a recording, as you say, of very real, physical movements and influences upon actual matter. This is no less representational, but it is a phenomenological approach, which includes the whole perceptive organism, rather than what's limited to vision as a mental phenomena - it represents the very real things that has happened to the canvas. The hand is invisible, and it doesn't represent anything other than what it is in and of itself, but representational nonetheless; even as you can isolate certain areas of a figurative painting and only see abstract forms and colour.

Pic is mine, and yes it's suppose to be that way.