Isolation

Of late, I have been exploring abstraction.  This is the third in this series of paintings.  I reverted back to my memories of art in college and began with a simple line piece.  Then I added a piece using line and shape, focusing on an idea, supported by the image.  This painting is more obviously shape and color oriented.  I picked a simple geometric shape - the square - and used that as a means of expression.  The colors chosen were intentionally complementary colors intending to make it a little more intense.  The gradation of the orange is to signify a single light source.  That source being the generic, blank cell phone image.  While the colors are all the same, the intensity and the roughness of some signify a slight difference in one square as opposed to another square - subtle independence.  Even with those minor variations, the squares are very much alike.  It is like how we think of ourselves as different from others but looking objectively, you notice that you fit within a group that you don’t remember joining.  The title is intended to point to the way that cell phones have taken us from our daily surroundings and placed us in a digital world that we don’t quite understand but can’t break away from.  The blank image on the phone face might seem like a lack of connection to the provider creating instant panic for the user, when it is really just that I am too lazy to create a different image for each face.  Actually, that lack of connection would also create a different kind of Isolation.

I guess this is where I preach that we have given this object way too much control over our lives but I’m pretty sure you all know that, resent that and cannot break away from it, still.


​Medium: Acrylic Paint on Canvas
Not framed presently
Size: 28.5" x 28.5"

Price: $800.00 (Price does not include applicable sales tax or shipping)