Goin’ Down
Loving the fall and smiling amid the darkest of endeavors — mixed media artwork featuring acrylic paint and scribbles. Ember Art Gallery hosted the 2016 solo visual art series debut in Winston-Salem NC.
These paintings consider the point where the angels become the devils. Where the sinister is also the beautiful. Where good and evil coexist — like the Harpy who loves snatching another’s card. Evil and the grotesque ain’t really my bag — but I’ma try. Yes, there’s a past series in my bag that explores Satan as a dork. But that’s not occult. That’s not worship of anything unholy (glory to the quirky!). It’s the portrayal of a yin and yang of sorts. And this concept continues in Goin’ Down.
Goin’ Down is the other side of the coin from the previous series, Looking Up. In Looking Up the paintings considered using what we have to go forward. In Goin’ Down we are falling gracefully into darkness. We are celebrating the beauty in the evil. Devils were once angels, right? And in that regard we are still finding good/beauty/positive in what most consider bad/ugly/negative — just slightly more sinister. More red. More horns.
