Like it has been mentioned play is a vital ingredient of my practice. What follows is not merely a single project but a compilation of a specific aesthetic and visual motif I have been recreating in varied
manipulations and versions. The motif I am referring to is that of a liquified style of patterns that alternates under various occasions of media, sizes, and surfaces.
Press play is a free-hand, gesture-based digital painting idea visualisation, using open source software as well as using an interplay between analog and digital manipulation of my imagery and layers in the
making of the process. The very important quality of this artwork is that it has a very adaptive structure suitable both for the screen and for print.
It is to do with worlds. The orchestration of the curves, the blending of colours, the contrast of colours and that of the multiple layering in some cases of “the play”, create an illusional, hallusinogenic feel to the artwork. I think of this ongoing series to be a dominant feature of my aesthetic identity that I include and I allow to evolve whenever a new concept allows space for it to be recalled and referenced again. Having said that, despite the fact that the mannerism and process I use for this theme comes very naturally to me and I do relate to it strongly, I am also being very sceptical about its extensive use as to what degree I might suffer to be repetative and whether recalling some aspects of a specific mannerism of play is constructive for one’s development.
However, I have quite enjoyed coming up with this bit of visual language of mine as it was very physical in its making as well as in its handling, either when screen printed or when printed on very long paper or large pieces of paper.