My newest art piece is a work that combines the medium of painting with craft of gilding. A theoretical play between Art and Craft. I used an appropriated imaged of an Arctic explorer, back-lit with fine lines evoking the aurora borealis (northern lights), layered under several sheets of gold leaf.
Initially, I was thinking about how gold is actually used in many of the instruments of current space exploration. Note, the explorer is not an astronaut, but he does seem to relate to the cosmos compositionally.
The central figure could hardly care about the natural phenomenon that is occurring around him, he seems to be searching for something else that might be more important. Additionally, the usage of gold leaf also evokes an allusion to the Gilded Age, a critical and superficial title developed by Mark Twain toward the robber baron industrialists of the turn of the twentieth century.
It also becomes spatially relative through the changes of light depending upon the placement of the piece.
Overall, I'm pretty excited over this work, and I hope that it leads me to new tangent of creative production.
Untitled (Indifferent Explorer):
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