#gestural

[hannahsattic]

Gestural warm-up

[disease]

JIM DINE / "RED PEPPER LILIES" / 1999 [screenprint, etching, spit-bite aquatint, power-tool abrasion, aquatint and sandpaper abrasion | 40 × 29 9/10"]

[conlangprompts]

What role do props and sound effects play in your clown language?

[possumspaperpals]

“Nobody Here, There’s Nobody at All!”

“I’m Doing so Well have You Heard?”

“Be Right Here and Forever You’ll Stay”

These paintings are a triptych I made in my junior year of high school as part of my sustained investigation. When I made these I had just watched supereyepatchwolf’s video on liminal spaces, and it got me thinking about how I would feel trapped in a space where I was the only person left. I ended up making up an entire scenario about this where I’m stuck in this endless building in a white empty void endlessly wandering and missing my loved one’s. I also took some inspiration from Edward Hopper’s Urban Isolation paintings

All of them use gestural brushstrokes and color to convey intense emotions with the last one also using space and perspective to do so. The first meant to capture mania, the second deep sorrow, and the last intense loneliness.

Yes all their titles are song lyrics from “Aishite Aishite Aishite”

[seungho-jang]

see1295_45.4x37.8x1.8cm_acrylic on canvas_2023

[malocclusive]

[zytes]

form38

[tarotomorrows]

One 5 min and two 10 minute gesture sketches from my art class today. Low key proud of the one done in pink highlighter the rest…I highkey hate but aye it is what it is

[danielgianfranceschi]

Suggestions

[goobthegoblin]

Some random figures

Oil pastel and graphite on paper 18”x24”

[viwifey]

#something has just awoken inside me...

[disease]

"ABSTRACT COMPOSITION (I-III)" PIERO MASCETTI — 1990s [oil on canvas (3) | 7 9/10 × 7 9/10"]

[butchfalin]

the funniest meltdown ive ever had was in college when i got so overstimulated that i could Not speak, including over text. one of my friends was trying to talk me through it but i was solely using emojis because they were easier than trying to come up with words so he started using primarily emojis as well just to make things feel balanced. this was not the Most effective strategy... until. he tried to ask me "you okay?" but the way he chose to do that was by sending "👉🏼👌🏼❓" and i was so shocked by suddenly being asked if i was dtf that i was like WHAT???? WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY TO ME?????????? and thus was verbal again

[possumspaperpals]

Since Our Last Chat

This is another piece of art I did for my exploration into isolation. This one was to build off my mania painting with more desperation expressed. I did this one digitally at the beginning of my senior year and experimented with some of the different brushes to create more textures. It’s one of my favorites because of the angle and vibrancy of the colors. I did my best to make it feel like the figure was really pressing themself against the floor.

To explain the lore of this art further I must give a warning because it does go into some dark ideas and personal stuff

As I explained in my previous post with the triptych, I was exploring some of what I would feel in a situation where I was completely isolated and had expanded the ideas into an entire scenario. I find that being able to be messier with my art style, really move my hand arm and body while I’m painting helps release excess emotional energy. It’s definitely very weird to do so but I find it very cathartic to draw a version of myself experiencing this nightmare. Due to anxiety I’ve always experienced some level of isolation from others, but have also built very strong bonds with family and friends and I know I’d be devastated and spiral if I were to permanently lose them. I wanted to express feelings of loneliness and some more explosive feelings that I don’t usually express. I also wanted to share my art because I find the concepts I’ve come up with fun and interesting, even if it’s dark and weird, and I hope that I’m not alone in finding catharsis in this kind of thing.

In this scenario that I’ve come up with, an unknown event causes the entire universe to be completely erased. A bright crack of light consumes all and everything is gone in an instant, leaving me completely alone. I’m alone and wandering for a long time, having the occasional breakdown. Because the very reality of this place has unraveled, it becomes apparent that some level of manipulation towards my surroundings can happen, so I make a “home”. This building eventually becomes very warped, impossible, and large, like the house from House of Leaves and nothing much changes. This version of me can’t die, not permanently. Maybe a few seconds or minutes of relief, but the body will rebuild itself as if nothing happened. This is the life of this version of me for the rest of eternity, doomed to forever reminisce on what was lost, what was never had, and to slowly decay and regenerate in mind and body for the rest of time.

I have considered making this character entirely separate from myself so it’s a little less weird, but I’ve already drawn a lot of art with myself in it (even if it doesn’t look like me very much) and I don’t really feel like changing it.

Other inspirations for this scenario comes from the results of an incursion as shown in multiverse of madness but with a far emptier void, I Have no Mouth and I Must Scream, A Short Stay in Hell, Manifold Garden, the library of babel, NaissancE, art by Matthias Jung, Cinta Vidal, and Giovanni Battista Piranesi.

[seungho-jang]

1429_72.5x72.4x2.8cm_acrylic on canvas_2024

[calocreek]

"the shadow people come by every once in a while"

(my minecraft + mcyt tag)