Figure 1
• Dense, full composition, very visual-heavy with focal point on the black triangle allowing the eye to move. Straight, diagonal, thick, bold lines against saturated colour palettes and intense patterns. Mixing human and animal facial features? Complimentary, both warm and cool colours, incredibly decorative. Repeated and implied pattern-work. Overlapping perspective and motion. While congested, there is a harmony to it.
Figure 2
• Focal point is the brown sphere around the eye to move up to the hidden eyes and around the mirrored patterns. Cool colour patterns. Flowing, thick contours. Contrasting, saturated values. A sense of liveliness. Hidden layers and meanings.
Figure 3
[All unnamed and undated and I can't find a website for him, but he has potentially exhibited at the Bethlem Gallery.]
Square canvases make full use of the composition space stretching to all parameters of the lens and the mind. Repeated motifs of facial features fractured with shapes. Like a kaleidoscope. Intersected. Busy, dense, confusing and never-ending. Commentary of tricks on the mind? Narrative of the lens of mental illness and living inside your own version of reality? Over-embellished - perhaps to show enhancement of the truth and making reality more bearable?
Figure 3 reminds me of my vision with light being too bright and shadow being very prominent because of the pressures on my retina. It's also very telling of something being in the corner and always there. Depression and dark feelings always looming around the corner. It's also slightly distorted and slightly stretches to the right. A distorted sense of reality and commentary on that.
I chose these pieces as the sense of the work is different from my own, but the themes and colour palettes aren't too dissimilar from my own. I also like to work within square parameters and find a sense of familiarity within that frame.
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