By now, you may have seen the smearing, Insomnia. I consider it to be my flagship smearing, and greatest contribution to the world of abstract digital art. Although I have not entered it in any competitions, or sold vast numbers of prints of it, I still consider it a flagship piece, and nearly everyone who sees it in full 4400x5600 on the computer screen, or poster-sized print will agree. This work was started from the 26th of January, and completed on the 21st of April of 2001. To mark the 4th anniversary of it, I decided to dedicate an abstract pencil drawing, my newest fine art medium to the "Big One." Actually, the fact that the anniversary fell around the time i was to complete the drawing was a coincidence. I started the pencil drawing before deciding on that detail. Actually, I originally dedicated the pencil drawing to another artwork, a watercolor done on typing paper, then the poem the watercolor was based on. I will go more into that soon. So, without further rambling (for now), here is A Trustless World...
Here is the poem to which I dedicated the original art. This poem I believe was written in 1999.
Who is Who
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who is who
what is what
what would happen
if space was cut
what is space
what is time
it is a place
without reason or rhyme
when is now
who is the future
the ei is how
you get the shooter
who can we trust
in a trustless world
the truth will rust
and reality will be hurled
who is who
thats how i seem
i just woke up
it was only a dream
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around a year later, while playing with a children's watercolor paint set, i visualized the excerpt from the poem and applyed it to a piece of typing paper in watercolor format (who can we trust, in a trusteless world, the truth will rust, and reality will be hurled). this is the only watercolor painting ive ever made. the watercolor is signed and dated 6/9/2k what you are seeing in a trustless world is a zoomed out view as i am in the world of the poem, (a trustless world) and im at an easle painting the famous watercolor (although i did not paint it on an easil, thats what it represents, me making that.)
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insomnia on a lonley day in late january 2001, i put together a high resolution collage on my computer with the scanned version of the watercolor in the background. a few months later, on april 21st, 2001, i had finished a work i had a difficult time naming but decided on Insomnia which fit like a glove. i consider insomnia my greatest contribution to the world of abstract digital art, although it is not highly recognized. so, i took out a detail of the pencil drawing and dedicated it to insomnia. i did not want to reproduce the smear lines and abstractness, i wanted to render the 'real' characters of a small detail of the piece in the work at a different time of day, while someting else goes on. there have been different speculations on who the woman is, as she can represent a good handful of people. the one i commonly accept is she represents whoring out the fine art for commercial purposes, or not, but related to that subject. in the origianl insomnia, i put her in to create a heavy visual weight by subject matter (aka, a distraction) from the dude that wants to gouge out the angry moon's eye, which is in the negative space of the woman. well, you can see that the two of them have beeen caught as the sheet of paper has been 'ripped' to reveal them underneath. oops. the dog in which the one guy is holding back in insomnia is sleeping in the bottom corner by the heating vent. best not wake him up. the guy holding the dog back in insomnia doubles as one fo the agents out to get me as i paint the scene(the bald one).
Some Details about A Trustless World
----- subliminal opposite relationship
there is a difference and similarialy in various aspects of the right and left sides of the drawing. can you figure out what it is? on the right side you have a crazy chaotic violents storm. on the right you have a nice peaceful living room-like environment. on one side, you have lightning, and on the other, you have a socket pluged in. on one side you ahve a tornado, on the other you have a heating vent. which is powering which?
----- pencil and razor blade
the pencil and razor were added beacuses the composition was too clean and was just an interior shot of a large room. it needed a heavy (or a few) abstract and surreal aspect so as to mix with the rest of the drawings in teh series.
i made a full size drawing of one of my art pencils i was using. i wanted to get it as realistic as i possibly can, because i wanted it to go with the whole composition. the pencil represents me making art, and it puts into perspective that all the chaos vs. peacefullness in the artwork is dictated using just a pencil.
the razor blade goes along with the poem in the line of "what would happen if space was cut"
---- the Ei (pronounced 'eye')
if you know me well enough, you probebly have heard me mention my famous mathematical "Ei Theory." i wont go into it here, but i mentioned it in the poem, as i wrote it near the beginning of my thouhgts on dividing by zero. anyway, the line "the ei is how you get the shooter" is visualized here. although unrelated, the pencil in this case represents the Ei (as it is labeled) and has the power (by me as an artist) to dictate what happens to me in the drawing, as you see, one of the agents out to get me in the artwork is armed! why did i put that line in the poem? beaccuse i couldnt figure out anything that rhymed with future!
------- so after all this hype, i wont consider this my best of the collection, but i spent the most time on the composition and thinking into what to put what where to have the most meanings, which would make it more visually interestign. unfortunatly, the scan didnt capture it as nicely as it is on the A5 pad its on. the main walls are very bright, and its barely indistinguishable from the spotlight which is shining. if you see someting i ddint mention, feel free to interpret it any way you wish! so, without further me rambling (i pulled an allnighter making finishing this), dedicated the 4 years since i finished insomnia, behold my newest pencil drawing of the series, "A Trustless World"