Old work, painted in acrylic paint using a paintbrush. It took quite a while on and off. The first photograph is the board resting on some corks to make the nice shadow. The second is me holding it and below that is some close-ups. No editing has been done to the photographs.

Photographs taken using a Kodak DX4530 (5.0 megapixels, 3x optical zoom).

Here are a few photographs taken at various stages of this painting. Oil on canvas, developed from an early concept drawing (see below).

The “cities-with-roots” coupled with the somewhat boring composition are meant to look symbolic. The painting could be seen to represent a number of different issues, including the fast pace in which humans are using the planet’s natural resources.

This painting is not actually completely finished. I was planning to repaint the background, as I was not entirely happy with it. However, it is now very unlikely I will do anymore to this.

Daydreams of paradise on a grey and rainy day
"My blank canvas stares back at me, unsympathetically. I look away. Outside, the entire sky is emitting an invariant light. I couldn't even guess where the sun was, it's so diffused by the blanket of thick cloud. I watch the raindrops racing down the window pane. I place a bet on the big one that's recently merged. It has so much momentum, it's bound to win. I lost. What made it stop anyway? It's the drop you least expect that always wins. I suppress a yawn and close my eyes.

I lay comfortably in the shade, engulfed in a beautiful and perfect warmth. Golden shards of sunlight dance across my shut eyelids. As sand grains, teased up by the wind, tickle my feet, I slowly rouse to the sound of coconut palms swaying in the warm breeze and clear azure waters gently lapping the soft white sand."

Abstract expressionism...I think. It's an abstraction of an aerial view of the coastline of an imaginary tropical island. Though it's more about the colour and brush marks on a 2d plane than anything representational.

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