Lost

Did you ever wonder how many ways you can be lost? Physically, mentally or emotionally… well it all has one meaning, and that is: you are far away from the ordinary path, even though I don’t consider it always as bad, on the contrary, sometimes it can be exciting… and finding your way back can give a lot of new experiences, you can definitely grow. If I think about my creations or the way I create, I would like to apply Van Gogh’s sentiment: “I put my heart and soul into my work and have lost my mind in the process“. So here is my LOST:

It’s mixed media on canvas and as usual you can get a bit insane and loose your mind with me in the process. So my journey was beginning with collaging some gelli printed pieces on my canvas and blending them in with gesso.

Paint lunatic asylum, department monochrome – boneblack/titaniumwhite (I lost my mind). I took the first two colors falling in my hand (turquoise and raw umber light) and applied them with palette knife.

I dropped a few flow improver drops on my blue and whipped them off. Why? I lost my mind but enjoyed it. I still wanted a third color, something that pops, wait I have it, acrylic ink, let’s rock that green:

I think here is the moment when a shrink would say I am far away from reality, so I went to search for my inner self, my wondering soul and I tried to depict an exploring figure. But when my image was there I found it too clean, too calculated, my mojo wanted something more… so there it went again back to lunatic, I applied some wax here or there, and a layer of titanium white. When it dried I used France Papillon’s French journal page stamp with archival ink and I stamped on my white paint. Then I took a tissue and whipped the wax away creating a torn effect.

And finally the little voice inside said go on, now it’s to pale, so I added cadmium yellow hue deep through my gothic romance stencil. And of course some self rusted found objects needed to come as well. And then I felt I found myself, that’s me, so I stopped.

Hope you enjoyed the journey with me. I am sharing my wondering/exploring self with my friends at One little word – word up #86 Lost.

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