How Did We Get Here? - Oil on panel - 9" x 12"
As mentioned in my first post, my work tends to center on our conscious and subconscious thoughts. When I say my paintings are intuitive, I truly mean I let the shapes and ideas form free of my restrictions. I've found that when I try to "control" an idea, it ends up going haywire and I must start again.
My work is usually contained within the "shadow" of a portrait, but with these new pieces, I'm diving deeper into the source of original creation and letting the whole canvas get involved. This first piece starts to explore the loss of those boundaries. The tangled web of day to day thought illustrated. We're built of many different thoughts, not just the one we wear on the outside.
Lately, I've been asking myself the question contained in the title of this piece a lot. With so many changes, life on the road, job hunting, and all of the other things that go along with relocating compiling into a swirl of mixed emotions. Finding balance in creation, I let my mind explore these feelings through color and shape. Freeing me of thought, as a working meditation to a degree.
We fill our minds with so many trivial things that we forget what it's like to walk through the open space of no thought. Take the time to stop for five minutes and really let your mind be free for once. Explore that empty and sometimes frightening realm of freedom.