-Medium-Acrylics

-Size- 18x24 inches

-Description-

This is a hard one to have concrete description because I did this free style mostly at night time… a sketch of it came first with absolutely no thought of meaning. The pen sketch was a project for 2d design for a surrealisms project (the teacher kind of picked a good subject for once ) When we did critic on the sketch of my work that looked very alike to this painting. Several students explained that this painting felt to them that the artist who did this was confused, slightly sad. Also that he had a lot of things in his mind atm… and also slightly isolated… and like my life is still under construction in a way.

That is what they said basically and they got my state of mind in that moment in time and that is why I decided to paint it.

While I was painting it I realized that this painting did have that feeling they described but than I looked into the painting more and saw that I basically painted my family…

I have 3 brothers but one brother is in another city in his own house so I did not add him in…

The painting has two males one male is tided by a rope to the middle mask which is female the rope is put like an infinity sign forever love. (My mother and father) the far left face is my brother. And I am in my fathers mouth the little green character. The white path crosses through the mouths of all meaning we are all in the same path we still live together. And my father still has a lot of advice to give me so in a way he has a lot of say about decision I make in life still… the rope that ties the right male mask to the ground by wooden pole means he is still very much in charge of us and he is tied to the ground more than my mom and brother to job...

Surrealisms is your unconscious and I think in this painting some how I did that… because I really did not think of prior feeling or actually planed it… it just came to me.

Some things I still can not explain are the paint bucket and the boat… or the shallow water… The bucket is half explained to me I think it means that I have left many things in my life unfinished un painted… and yes I have left some of my art works for a year or so not finished… and just now I am getting to finish them.