Essences: Stasis

A period of stasis can be described as a period of inactivity. Recently in my creative journey I encountered a bit of a block in terms of communicating my ideas onto the canvas/screen.

This piece represents the existence of many ideas but feeling like I needed a fresh vehicle to show them in my art. In a sense they were there but locked up or dormant. This in turn actually became an idea all on it's own and I think has given me the spark to unleash the rest. It's funny how creativity can work like this sometimes.

Within this piece I wanted to create a sense of suspended time and an almost meditative state along with the jumbled abstract forms and flowing shapes to represent the ideas and thoughts that are loaded and ready to go. This state of mind has almost overtaken the subject with the organic forms growing over the face and ready to engulf everything.

I broke my finger towards the end of making this piece so I hid my x-ray in here somewhere. See if you can find it!