The Love Delusion

I've defaced another op shop artwork. This preframed embroidery artwork appealed to me because i found it quite repulsive, so naturally i made it more repulsive. The colours were boring and I'm not a big fan of embroidered stuff, the only redeeming feature of it for me was the subject matter of the couple in the fore ground. I played on the idea of the two lovers being infatuated with each other. Within their fields of vision their view is different to the surrounding areas in the painting, this represents the idea of new love being a beautiful escape from the harsh realities of life, we all crave it in our own ways and its beautiful, abstract, colourful and wonderful.

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I find that my art enables me to express elements of my world that can't necessarily be seen by the naked eye, its an attempt at conveying something a bit intangible. Abstraction is the primary way I communicate my ideas and experiences in art.
The naive and somewhat primitive lines, shapes, colours and textures I use are my attempt at capturing the atmosphere, personality or feeling of a place or person I have encountered in my life, realism or a photograph in my opinion doesn't always capture these elements of the world.
I feel that my art brings these to the surface...it shows the soul of something, somewhere, or someone. Perhaps you will see someone you know within my strange works, maybe even yourself.