Setting the new foundations. In complete contrast with my working style so far. I start to create my art by setting the vision and implementing what's needed in order to deliver upon it. The current period is filled with strong vision, bold new directions and excercising excellence.
Slowly and stubbornly working on the tiniest details aiming to create works that reflect my desire for serious craftsmanship while preserving my focus on the initial vision.
It’s an erotic artwork, about a bunch of people doing “dirty” things to each other. They are like almost floating in the air, they are in a kind of ecstasy because of their frenzy. I call it “A 70 Year Old Orgy Host at the Peak of His Craft”, it’s a satyrical title. The gray indicates the dullness I personally see surrounding these kind of people, or all people, including myself, when you indulge so much in such extremities of pleasure, and maybe because that’s why you indulge, because your life is dull, and you take the easy way out.
I think I started doing such funny slash erotic kind of artworks back in 2007, I mean, it was like, I was feeling like you know, the first thing you do/you want to do/others want you to do when they realize you can draw, when you are young: it’s draw penises and breasts and the like. I don’t know why this happens, I’m sure there are a ton of theories, but when I was a teenager and committed myself on embarking on my artistic career I never did this kind of thing, maybe because I wanted to be taken seriously. But when I was at my early 20s, I kind of felt liberated doing things like that, maybe it was time to explore my sexuality more seriously and my art was always my serious thought channel. With this it’s like feeling younger again, doing what needed to be done, make all people nude, it has a purity, and of course you are not so naive about it now, and maybe that’s what this surrounding gray is about, your are way more into it now. I like that I have now created a piece that took some time and a little more thought to come about, not much though, I basically created the drawing directly on the paper in one go and then added the color and details, it took some 3 or 4 years to come about, I am very slow in recent times.
I don’t think I want to communicate anything directly here, just doing this specific thing is the important thing to communicate, I just wanted to play the kid again, that’s what I believe this piece is about, me taking seriously that age, when you needed to do this. And what more could someone hope to be than a grown up kid, behave like a kid but be more conscious about it, I think it’s an ultimate goal after all. A kid’s heart, in an adult’s mind, that’s what we are after all: kids with bruises.
