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Window markers, oil, acrylic, sharpie, india ink, oil pastels, house paint, spray paint on plexiglass.
48'' X 52''

The plexiglass panels were found and some donated from Walt (see painting) and one piece was bought from home depot for 30 bucks.

The piece is meant to be in a completely white walled setting, it sits 4 inches off of the wall with a hanging system I made myself.

I would appreciate if you commented / admired without reading my process as I would rather facilitate a personal connection rather than have my primary ideas obstruct any interpretation as the piece went far beyond where I began and ended in an investigation just as amazing. If you've done so already, then go ahead and read what I wrote in journals about my piece, comments about it, and my thoughts before during and after.

To get us started, the topic of the pieces were to be about filters, in any way, I began with the idea of how plexiglass filters paint to be flat and to me much more beautiful, also how my mind filters facts into things that aren't useful in a conventional way, but interconnecting many ideas in more concrete ways.

The piece scared me from the start, I wanted to express phenomenon that was new to me about certain disconnects in life. I finished a summer class called, Visions of the Universe (appropriate for my art piece, but not really for the class) what I found really interesting is how people first began to discover planets and even a formula that predicted that other planets MUST exist (planet X), and so calculus was invented and then boom, a planet's found! This passed me as just another fact I would have to remember, who did what and such, when I realized how intense the idea was. Math was invented, practically out of nothing, to find something in a whole vast amount of nothing, and even weirder some scientist made a crazy guesstimate that wasn't based off of any real data and it ended up being fairly close to the actual location of a newly discovered planet! But back to the art, my mind couldn't stop thinking about a lot of things concepts related to the circles of knowledge, my friend in criminology told me that it was called the dark face of crime, crimes that go unreported that must be formulated, a engineering student told me that the concept was called 'm', did I as an artist possible have circles of knowledge that only explained how objects had weight, color, texture etc... but I could possibly invent formulas (even guesstimate) to form a new way of thinking that would find my own missing 'lanet'. I also began my investigation alongside other ones such as why is color different for pigments vs. light and ideas of science and art coming together. This piece in particular has two variables, a control and an 'extra' panel which is a painting made from the ideas coming from the two variables (middle panels). I began to make small black dots of ink that i kept dotting until it all ran out, symbolizing a critique of technology, of cars, specifically of the idea of oil running out sometime in my lifetime. This piece also reflected upon Katrina, how nature can be so chaotic matching only our own system's chaos to deal with it. So there are swirling motions and circles and pulls of blue like water flooding or... flushing my ideas. This all sounds like a lot, but in the end of these paintings, the end rarely is related to the beginning. This was my first attempt at 'rocess' art. In the end I was speechless, how do I describe something I had no control over, just pure instinct and reaction. Then my new ideas for why plexiglass, why these shapes, these colors. It came to me after reading a graduate student's paper about her own work, except it dealt with ideas of dreams. When talking to someone about how painting on plexiglassi s so intense because of the infinite details and the ability to be one with the painting because there was no... medium of canvass, just the viewer and the colors and forms, they responded saying that it sounded very similar to tripping out. I was doing what I believed was the essence of art, a kind of cataclysmic event, a formation of a language, the best part about plexiglass, is that it rarely lets me overwork the painting, this is something I have struggled with for so long! Looking at it during the critique I found some words, expanding, too much information, my interpretation of scientific facts becoming decorative and having an aesthetic appeal, structures built that are flawed, fast swirling pulling inward, microscopic and yet it reveals gallexies... Because it comes off the wall it is even much more ambient.

secrets about the painting: much of it was done very quickly with my friend Ryan, somehow I felt that someone without an artistic background would be able to express themselves in a way I wouldn't, and that was a good thing for me to begin to build off of. The circles on the far left panel are painted as squares on the back, I made them baby colors to suggest that many systems are explained as being simple, and simplicity must be questioned deeply. Yay first piece of 5 done!

Description
Simple information first:

Window markers, oil, acrylic, sharpie, india ink, oil pastels, house paint, spray paint on plexiglass.
48'' X 52''

The plexiglass panels were found and some donated from Walt (see painting) and one piece was bought from home depot for 30 bucks.

The piece is meant to be in a completely white walled setting, it sits 4 inches off of the wall with a hanging system I made myself.

I would appreciate if you commented / admired without reading my process as I would rather facilitate a personal connection rather than have my primary ideas obstruct any interpretation as the piece went far beyond where I began and ended in an investigation just as amazing. If you've done so already, then go ahead and read what I wrote in journals about my piece, comments about it, and my thoughts before during and after.

To get us started, the topic of the pieces were to be about filters, in any way, I began with the idea of how plexiglass filters paint to be flat and to me much more beautiful, also how my mind filters facts into things that aren't useful in a conventional way, but interconnecting many ideas in more concrete ways.

The piece scared me from the start, I wanted to express phenomenon that was new to me about certain disconnects in life. I finished a summer class called, Visions of the Universe (appropriate for my art piece, but not really for the class) what I found really interesting is how people first began to discover planets and even a formula that predicted that other planets MUST exist (planet X), and so calculus was invented and then boom, a planet's found! This passed me as just another fact I would have to remember, who did what and such, when I realized how intense the idea was. Math was invented, practically out of nothing, to find something in a whole vast amount of nothing, and even weirder some scientist made a crazy guesstimate that wasn't based off of any real data and it ended up being fairly close to the actual location of a newly discovered planet! But back to the art, my mind couldn't stop thinking about a lot of things concepts related to the circles of knowledge, my friend in criminology told me that it was called the dark face of crime, crimes that go unreported that must be formulated, a engineering student told me that the concept was called 'm', did I as an artist possible have circles of knowledge that only explained how objects had weight, color, texture etc... but I could possibly invent formulas (even guesstimate) to form a new way of thinking that would find my own missing 'lanet'. I also began my investigation alongside other ones such as why is color different for pigments vs. light and ideas of science and art coming together. This piece in particular has two variables, a control and an 'extra' panel which is a painting made from the ideas coming from the two variables (middle panels). I began to make small black dots of ink that i kept dotting until it all ran out, symbolizing a critique of technology, of cars, specifically of the idea of oil running out sometime in my lifetime. This piece also reflected upon Katrina, how nature can be so chaotic matching only our own system's chaos to deal with it. So there are swirling motions and circles and pulls of blue like water flooding or... flushing my ideas. This all sounds like a lot, but in the end of these paintings, the end rarely is related to the beginning. This was my first attempt at 'rocess' art. In the end I was speechless, how do I describe something I had no control over, just pure instinct and reaction. Then my new ideas for why plexiglass, why these shapes, these colors. It came to me after reading a graduate student's paper about her own work, except it dealt with ideas of dreams. When talking to someone about how painting on plexiglassi s so intense because of the infinite details and the ability to be one with the painting because there was no... medium of canvass, just the viewer and the colors and forms, they responded saying that it sounded very similar to tripping out. I was doing what I believed was the essence of art, a kind of cataclysmic event, a formation of a language, the best part about plexiglass, is that it rarely lets me overwork the painting, this is something I have struggled with for so long! Looking at it during the critique I found some words, expanding, too much information, my interpretation of scientific facts becoming decorative and having an aesthetic appeal, structures built that are flawed, fast swirling pulling inward, microscopic and yet it reveals gallexies... Because it comes off the wall it is even much more ambient.

secrets about the painting: much of it was done very quickly with my friend Ryan, somehow I felt that someone without an artistic background would be able to express themselves in a way I wouldn't, and that was a good thing for me to begin to build off of. The circles on the far left panel are painted as squares on the back, I made them baby colors to suggest that many systems are explained as being simple, and simplicity must be questioned deeply. Yay first piece of 5 done!