Having studied Fine Art I end up intertwining painting with my graphics
Initially in mind I had this really gentle image of pink blossoms against a blue sky, but I ended up getting bored. Really bored of painting the conventional sweet spring environment. Once the flowers were painted I began building the colour in the background with blues and reds and then the bottom half of the painting felt so heavy and muddy I felt like destroying the painting at one point. Then I figured that by blending the upper part with the lower part in a smeared gesture it looked as though the flowers were fleeting and gradually disintegrating. The melting of the flowers simply suggesting how nothing will ever last.
The painting wasn't horrendous on it's own but an incorporation of simplistic monochrome typography added the extra layer that the viewer can dig through. It is an extra piece of information for the viewer but just enough to still leave the viewer open for interpretation.
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