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I know it's not the greatest painting, nor is it really that good at all, but this painting is important for me, and I like it anyway.

For one thing, it's a significant milestone-thingy, in that I've never done anything so freely, ever, in all the time (4-5 years) I've been seriously trying to make art. I used watercolours, lead pencil, watercolour pencil, acrylic, ink, fabric paint, charcaol pencil and even duct tape, whichever felt right. Usually I won't use any more than 2 different mediums in one work, and I've always known that that was inhibiting, and I don't know why I did it, but now I'm free of it. I wasn't restrained with the idea of creating a finished, polished image. This is thanks to this short paragraph I read... quoted from a Tao book... which I'll be buying, because it's amazing.

I know that the freedom should be controlled, but I've been trying to control things for much too long that for now, I'm going to continue with the free creation to get it irremovably stuck in my system, and THEN work to control it later.

Also I learned that I should stop painting once I think "wow, this rocks," and not wait for the time when I look at it and think "ok, maybe I should stop painting now."

That's why it's significant. Now I just need years of practise, because this is something I should have discovered ages ago.

Now, to the meaning. I don't usually do this, this explanation-of-meaning thing.

We make choices in life, and when we make one decision, all the other choices and paths we could've taken at that point in time are gone, have "died". We kill something by not choosing path A, but we bring a new situation to life by choosing path B... This is what it's about. That bird (is it dead or alive? I don't even know) is in the seed, and the seed is growing because of the bird. The black lines cover things, which we'll never see. I took the tape off at one point and replaced it... I discovered what was behind it, but at the same time, the current pieces of tape don't match up as exactly with the background anymore.

Ramble ramble

It makes sense in my head, it really honestly does. I know it's not really any good, but I'm happy with this.
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sunabora's avatar
I cant say anything... absolutely great.