L#1  oil on canvas  1500 x 900 June 2013

     My work “untitled 2013” (2013), is an experimental painting created in 2013. The colors are hazy and chalky, using low contrast and maelstrom brushes stroke’s chaotic movement. The intended purpose of these elements is to offer the audience a hallucinatory or drunken feeling under the water’s and waves’ twisted gravity. The scale of painting is half the size of other artist’s works. Evaluating the visual impact on the audience, I found that it is not as much as I hoped for and the colour construct is not good enough to represent the dream-like feeling. The low contrast does not have a strong spiritual impact.  My aim was to achieve what Messer (1997) refers to as: “A painting whose imagery leave us little by way of even vestigial subject matter, while overpowering the viewer with the sheer force of its energetic shapes and radiant colours. ”(Messer, 1997, p. 92)

Messer, T., M. (1997). Vasilly Kandinsky / Thomas M. Messer. London Thames and Hudson.