Sometimes it’s really hard to decide what to make next. I am officially running out of room for my creations, a common curse amongst the maker class. But because of this lack of space, there is an implied demand that anything made should be made well, and better yet for a specific purpose. But this constraint stops creative growth dead. I have the time, the desire, and the capability to make scores of art for no purpose other than therapy and exploration, so why shouldn’t I? But do I follow this abstract rabbit hole deeper? Do I return to representational for a more guaranteed* satisfactory result? There are a lot of ideas swirling around in my head for different ways to express the same themes.
The archetypal, uselessly unspecific theme being nature. Everything I draw and paint has some relation to nature, because it is literally the omnipotent environment that we move through and exist in, and any connection to it is an improvement on our condition.
I therefore am considering beginning, or more concretely tying together a series on nature worship. Every breath I take is in reverence of nature so it’s already a subtext to everything I make anyway. A more obtuse body of work might be more marketable; if I slap the viewer in the face with the love of nature can I make work that is unified?
Images about the worship of nature don’t have to be representational. They can be about a feeling of gratitude or more squishy elemental imagery. But iconography in the form of monolithic trees and interminable mountain ranges are also appropriate.
What about occultism in nature? I know a dog that has the face of a demon. Is painting a chimera a departure from the topic or another way of mythologizing nature’s beasts?
