Chaotic splashes of paint and ink across the canvas. Gravity used to guide the free flowing paint and ink around the textured canvas. The inspiration behind this piece is the occurrence of rage and anger as a result of trauma. My goal with this piece was to show the power, complexity, darkness and shame that accompany anger or rage outbursts. When emotions build up for too long they explode, and at times uncontrollably . The tumultuousness and unpredictability of this powerful emotion is expressed on the canvas through similar splatters, fevering strokes and chaotic splashes of paint.

RAGE

Pouring medium along with heavy gloss gels mixed with black and white acrylic paint. This technique allowed the paint to take on a sticky wet looking consistency where the paint appears to be stuck to the canvas while being pulled away by the viewer. This explores the "sticky thoughts" experienced in obsessive compulsive disorder where rumination and unwanted intrusive thought get "stuck" in the mind.

Sticky Thoughts

Deep blues and contrasting whites with chaotic strokes and flicks of acrylic paint and pouring medium. Inspired by the force and depth of the ocean.

Drowning

Chaotic strokes of blue, white and black paints along with various acrylic mediums used to increase textures and boldness. Introspective exploration of a mind in turmoil with racing and chaotic thoughts.

Turmoil

Acrylic black, white and grey paint mixed with pouring mediums to increase viscosity of the paints and allow the colors to bleed together. This piece explores the feeling of detachment from reality where the dark and light contrasts appear to be separating and pulling apart. The vague strokes of white and grey into the deep black portion of the canvas imitate figures and objects that are barely in focus therefore mimicking the experience of depersonalization/derealization and the difficulty of connecting to the world around you.

Detached 

Black and white splattered acrylic paint over three white canvases. This piece is an introspective look on trauma; the exploding pattern of paint from the center canvas pouring onto the others mimic that of the darkness and intensity of traumatic events and the devastating affects they have on the psyche. The darkness covers most aspects of the canvases, tainting the blank white canvas with sticky black paint similar to how trauma affects all aspects of life, memory and thoughts.

DEVASTATE

Acrylic and various acrylic mediums to increase texture and depth of the work. Mixed dark blues mimic the depths and force of the ocean and how it parallels the human emotions experienced with depression.

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