The Imperfect Perfection

I have always been a little conspiracy nut. Another more polite term might be 'social mechanics interested'. I don't know when this started, but it was probably around the time when my inflated sense of justice caused me to get really annoyed with abusive powers in the world. You see, I don't like when people with power, fail to keep their morals in check. It's part helplessness, part frustration and let's be honest, a lack of faith in cosmic justice.

It was only later, when I became a Buddhist (however only in the most pragmatic of ways) that I tempered these emotions of injustice with a rationalization that how people behave shapes their character and ultimately lands them in a situation in which they reap what they've sown.

It was only a matter of time before one of the biggest injustices in our world - Big Brother mechanics - would manifest itself through my creativity. The young adult novel series 'Aelemental' taps into this to a certain degree, aligning personal teenage angst and insecurities with the corporate and governmental 'macro evils' of our world. But as the search for an agent continues and I focus on the more visual outlet to my creative Muses through Asian Daily Paintings, Big Brother was bound to pop up through my subconscious.

I have painted 17 daily paintings so far (and need 13 more for the Bangkok K-village Art Festival) and only now through the sheer unpredictability that is painting magic (?) has my masterpiece arrived. It went fast. A few scribbles, perfect follow up lines of black acrylic and there it was: the frustrated eyes of a faceless Big Brother. Despite (or maybe because) my intent on having the 'Glyphs' series present black/white with one bright color, I felt the stark hyperbole of Big Brother needed to be offset by the blandness of its intent - hence the grey. Not a line out of shape or superfluously used. I was very jazzed.

Just wanted to share the jazz. It eases the frustration. And maybe that's the true value of art in any form: it balances the universe and everything in it for us by giving our unspoken emotions a voice.