Tuesday, November 16, 2010

Electric Blue


This is based on a painting I am solely implicated in the creation of in 2000 AD, called 'Blue on Blue.'
That painting was specifically created for a dear friend of mine, and has been in their possession ever since.  I wouldn't have it any other way; it is theirs to display, modify or destroy as they see fit!

Any number of hilarious fates could have befallen it by now; the last time I saw it was early in the century. This is only a little upsetting because B.O.B. was one of my favourite crappy attempts at 'Art'...for me it only exists in a recently-taken grainy mobile phone photo of a photo of it alongside a number of other crappy paintings I did in 2000 AD, and also in the form of memories stored under 'difficulty with blue paints' in the back corner of my brain.  Now I have finally used that grainy photo to create a derivative work - in 24 hours or less! The original lurks in the foreground of its "spiritual suck-cessor" as a "testament to the power of the imagination, and the limited conduits through which it leaks into the so-called 'real world'" -  or more likely,  as a visually interesting and totally self-indulgent tribute.

I hope you enjoy this fine example of exhaustion art!