Black - Thesis Series

I'm submitting my artwork after almost 2 years...i'll be putting up paintings from my thesis (dec-jan 04-05) titled 'silencio'...
i thought i'd begin with my favourite piece.

this one portrays the 'inside' of a body...both physically and symbolically.
we all have a mess brewing inside us...

----see also
White - Thesis Series
Silent - Thesis Series
Burst - Thesis Series
Three - Thesis Series
Red - Thesis Series
Red Rip - Thesis Series
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Theme:
i was working on abstract expressionism. my theme was based around something that i have experienced very intensely. When things are boiled up inside too long, too much rage is generated. apparently catharsis lies in the outpouring of the soul.
i feel otherwise...an outpour is a dirty dirty explosion of more rage, frustration, noise and blood.

i had so much inside me that i could not sit in my studio and think and plan. i would close in my studio space. and start working on a surface with all my materials lying around me...
the experience has been by far the most amazing frenzied trances that i have been in. non inspired...almost always!

p.s. crappy photo quality

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surface: wood
medium: acrylics, emulsion, crayon, pencil, metal tools, hands, a crazed up mind
dimensions: 4 x 8 ft. (yes it was crazy tall for me.. im only 5'2"!!)