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comment by Kerbobotat
Kerbobotat  ·  3374 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Burn your clothes and the helicopters will come (acrylic painting)

Looks great! To me it looks like a cross section of a 'brain' in the center of the canvas, flecked with these spots of black like some malady creeping into the thought process. I imagine it's a good representation of the kind of feelings that lead you to strip naked and venture to Starbucks.

Overall to me I get the impression of 'raw sensory input', the colours are the brain interpreting the environment, green blobs perhaps as the people in Starbucks (whom the subject sees as jealous of his freedom) the burnt orange of the fire that burned his clothes, the bright blue as the sky, as he looks up seeing helicopters approaxhing, the creeping black sitting on the back of his mind symbolising the darkness of mental illness overtaking him.

Nice job dude!





Fallexe  ·  3374 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I am glad my painting stimulated such an interesting interpetation! The painting makes a lot of sense as a cross section of the subject's brain.