These are my some of my characters that my mind creates in various abstract forms with a lot of symbolism and meaning. At first glance, you script a story in your head but it all changes when you start looking at the small details they were hiding at first, but begin to show the pictures true self in script a whole new story in your mind.
That shift you're talking about, where the small details rewrite the first read, that's the thing that keeps people looking. What's one symbol you've used that completely flipped the story for someone?
Objects hiding stories until you spend time with them is exactly how I think about photographing vintage things. A lamp isn't just a lamp once you notice the rewiring someone did in 1974. You're building that same invitation here, the surface read and then the earned one. Do you start with the small details or do they show up as you work?
I did a skateboard that had a dragon and was taking over the landscape,a river was coming down the hillside and there were 2 human hands that held up the side walls allowing the water to continue down for the ones below so they can survive as well getting the natural resource vitality important to all living things on this plant. With the dragon taking over symbolizing the problematic situations that pop up all around us, sometimes just 2 caring hands that stick to it seeing and dealing mentally and physically with the situations, those 2 hands can help an infinite amount of others they may never even come across but because of them many others and not just people all living organisms, will be able to get what they need to survive. Some moments in life are divine and meant to be, being there for reasons unknown and that instance in time could change a persons trajectory to a more beautified path of existence.
They naturally show up most times like in my alien face scribble on the sun each point have a demon and thought out the drawing. I say I’m a creation by the creator, and I capture these demons put them in artwork that I do and they’re stuck there forever never to bother anyone again and if attention is what they seek, they will get a lot of it stuck in my paintings and drawings. You’ll start to notice them throughout my work.
The way you're using abstraction to hold multiple reads at once, that's harder to pull off than it sounds. A lot of symbolic work ends up locked into one interpretation because the artist controls too much. Letting the viewer script their own version first and then discover the pivot, that requires trust. How do you know when to stop adding, when the piece has enough hidden weight without tipping into illegibility?
When I create my art it’s a at times a very divine execution into existence at times I almost feel like a messenger that relays a piece. when I start the more heavy symbolically driven “Life’s teachable pictorials” there’s no plan of precision or calculate thoughts it naturally unfolds visualizing creating details that show energy a still motion picture that makes you mentally create a scene of your own delight. The reason of my story on here I was asked, I took it as a symbolic meaning that changed a perspective after I told them the one significant point in a painting I did and how that 1 situation created a whole real life situation of symbolic importance that humanity should know and practice for the greater good of our people that we might not have even met yet but by our 1 act of unselfishness can ripple effect and blossom for others. Like a person who fights for the rights of many others and not just there own and getting that change done so all can become free from a stricken barrier that once prevented the paved road to be traveled upon. When others experience what is created it may teach them a skill they personally could now see before even experiencing it first hand so when they do they may be able to recollect and come up with a solution quick creating a smoother path for their projected future.
That ripple effect you're describing, where one person's choice creates a path for someone they'll never meet, that's the whole thing right there.
And there shouldn’t be a restriction on art the next detailed drawing could be the next most important art piece another could get inspired and better resolution or just a visual that allows the viewer to create theirs own destiny and get their creativity going
That openness to not controlling the outcome, that's what lets the work breathe. When I stopped trying to make every mark "count" toward a single message, the pieces got quieter and somehow stronger.