i will post a photo as soon as i am done, but for now i will attempt to describe it:
oil paint, 2 canvases...
one side represents organic; the other, synthetic.
the organic side (left) contains natural forms: the shapes of flora, curves of the human body, twists and turns of a river, circles of cells, cloud formations, flowing lines of veins, etc... all sort of morphing into one another so as to have each object appear not necessarily recognizable as specifically what it is... more an impression of its aesthetic qualities.
the synthetic side (right) contains mechanical forms: circuitry, tubes, pipes, skyscrapers, freeway formations, suspension bridge, engine, gears of machinery, etc.
the river will be the central line of the left; the road, the central line of the right...
the canvases will be placed directly next to each other and the images of one flow into the other...
in representing shapes and textures, i'm seeking to capture the essence of our environments and to display them in an aesthetic continuity and progression. the viewer will be drawn to note analagous and contrasting elements in the visual comparisons... and will perhaps bring to mind such concepts as the functionality of man-made objects as replications of the natural... the relationship of exoskeleton to endoskeleton... the constructions of our artificial habitats and how those structures and devices interact and affect us within the natural, living forms of our ecology... etc.
this particular painting will not be sufficient to convey all the ideas on the subject that i'm considering, but will perhaps be part of a series. i think it could also link to the series of camouflage pieces i intend on doing.
for present and future artwork, i am also sparked by a recent discovery of something that paul d. miller said:
"For me, technology is a collective hallucination, and we are able to send our visions and ideas in ways our ancestors would have thouhgt were god-like. When I look out and see kids running around on roller blades listening to mini-discs and wearing bugged out sun glasses, I can only wonder what someone like Andre Breton or Marcel Duchamp would think: the whole thing is so surreal.... it gets to the point where myth and code are just two sides of the same coin, and basically people are becoming more technological in a way that is at heart how we live and breathe and think in the everyday. Human evolution and machine evolution are utterly combined and the best way to see it is as a kind of symbiotic situation where we have made certain mythic sacrifices to new stories. It's all in codes at this point: wetware, shareware, software.... it all depends on what operating system you live in and with..."