#Andres a baddie and no one can change my mind

[nutsack2007]

This man 100% listens to fucking Lady Gaga, 50 cent, Orion experience, etc. There's no question in my mind that he fucks with Afro man as well.

Like fr look at this mf.

Tell me he's not shaking ass to Candy shop or Disco Inferno

There's not much to shake but by god he's trying

[hipamplona]

red/green

oil on canvas 36x36 2017

2016 | 2017 texture, feelings | form, power amassing, experiences | symbolism, giving openness | closed listening/receiving | focus/producing maximalism | efficiency

This was a piece I did in January proposing a dualistic nature of human phases. First, you are ‘green’, associated with all words on the left: feeling, experiencing, amassing, collecting (read - I wanted to take a break after engineering). Then, you are ‘red’, this develops into: form, power, symbolism, contribution. As an example, I think of the oppression of colored people and then a symbol, the black fist. What did their experiences mean to them? How did they then act to mobilise, innovate? This concept was first drawn as a series of three sketches on a page. I wanted to show this as (i) two sides of the brain, (ii) in time (for myself... we’ll see how this turned out), (iii) in birth. Then, instead of black and white, I chose red and green for the painting instinctively. This painting is thematically similar to one sketch included in this series called ‘work’. To me, this is process. Sometimes, I wonder if I am too harsh on myself to be forthright about following a process; I am yet not guilty until proven. I have considered dualism as a common theme in my life, yet until this moment I have not really called it ‘dualism’ - likely it is contemplation of the whole, and the mind enjoys clarifying things as opposites, their synergies.  There is a crayon drawing I drew somewhere around leaving high school, where a dancer stands at opposite ends to an engineer on a tensioned field force, my mom to my dad, from femininity to masculinity. When I find it I will place it here. At some point in the past couple years, I also became aware of the Japanese/Zen awareness of opposites, too. While in her care recovering from a nerve condition, my amazing, very new-age and metaphysical physiotherapist Lisa told me about her fulfilment practising aikido, the martial art where you learn to ‘roll’ with the enemy’s punch, preserving affliction, then, at a timely moment, reverse their energy to attack them, like a sharing of momentum. Around the same time, via an amazing friend, I heard about a legendary video game called Ikaruga. At a time when other shoot-em-ups (games where your plane flies up the screen to shoot the baddies) were adding more features, more weapons, more levels for fun and complexity, Ikaruga shocked the field by adding less. Now, all the player could do was switch from black and white, two polarities. While black, the player would absorb bullets from black enemies but be hit by white ones, and vice versa. The tactic was incredibly simple yet exciting. The rich storytelling and character development of the game further added to the sense of agency imbued to the player. Later, I learned that another Japanese art, jiu jitsu means ‘softness controls hardness’, and would then study it until I was sick of my ear bones breaking. 

“As the moon changes, so does the moment, so does its shadow.” I will never forget the pristine lady full of presence who said this to me while we were passing through her porch at sunset. It was at her home and farm land in Fiji, and I had asked some simple and curious question, the likes of which I can not remember. I was struck by her deep and all-knowing response which she valiantly delivered. I can’t place why, but I know this matters.  ‘Today, I feel electric gray, I hope tomorrow neon black’ - Andre 3000 in ‘Interlude’