So, using the power of Deviant Art (and a calculator), I did a little analysis on my piece, La Macchina Perduta. I found the percentage of overall favorites each received in the attempt to gain some new kind of understanding about how the public might view my work. So (these numbers are not up to date, but I'm sure that the percentages won't change too much) in order of lowest to highest:
Part 1: 6%
Part 6: 9%
Part 4: 10%
Part 3: 12%
Part 5: 16%
Part 7: 17%
Part 2: 29%
I was interested to find that those pieces with highest color saturation and those in which lighter values accounted for more of the composition were much more popular. I suppose that this serves once again as an example of how differently I view such pictures than the rest of the world. I found, after a gradual process of self-discovery in Rome, that the general aesthetic of a piece is less important to me than the communication of the intended narrative. Therefore colors are used primarily in service to the story.
Yellow leaves and green grass are wonderful. I love them as much as the next guy. But for me, purply gray highways, hungry distant blacknesses near gas stations, and dull swaths of pinkish land have their own special, telling beauty.
This is why my pieces are often filled with my beloved unsaturated, un-nameable grays and sometimes weighted down with deep-colored darkness. I want to create a world of quiet mystery and surprise within the mundane, full of moments that feel old and half-remembered as opposed to shiny and new. I suppose it is possible that viewers might get lost in the attempted subtlety of a world of images lacking in communicative, clear, bright colors. But why not let them be just a little bit lost, so that they can understand at a slightly slower pace than the usual instantaneous kind, and form new, more complex feelings about an image?
I just hope that I'm not setting out on a road to nowhere...









I think of a gentle breeze blowing into a floral curtain and the smell of freshly cut wood.
Its warming.
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The Lord's Prayer contains 56 words;
The 23rd Psalm 118 words;
The Gettysburg Address 226 words;
The Ten Commandments 297 words;
The U.S. Department of Agriculture Directive on Pricing Cabbage weighs in at 15,629 words.
*opens window to let in breeze, grabs nearest piece of wood and thrusts to nose*
yeaaaaahh.... I'm feelin' it!
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adamTNY
~indonesia
*vector-artists ~Club-Vector
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adamTNY
~indonesia
*vector-artists ~Club-Vector
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