INTRODUCING “SAT” SERIES 1

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𝙏𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙥𝙧𝙤𝙟𝙚𝙘𝙩 𝙞𝙨 𝙞𝙣𝙨𝙥𝙞𝙧𝙚𝙙 𝙗𝙮 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙎𝙖𝙣𝙨𝙠𝙧𝙞𝙩 𝙘𝙝𝙖𝙧𝙖𝙘𝙩𝙚𝙧 “𝙨𝙖𝙩” सत् 𝙬𝙝𝙞𝙘𝙝 𝙝𝙖𝙨 𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙥𝙡𝙚𝙭 𝙢𝙚𝙖𝙣𝙞𝙣𝙜𝙨 𝙞𝙣𝙘𝙡𝙪𝙙𝙞𝙣𝙜 “𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙬𝙝𝙞𝙘𝙝 𝙞𝙨 𝙪𝙣𝙘𝙝𝙖𝙣𝙜𝙚𝙖𝙗𝙡𝙚,” “𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙡𝙞𝙩𝙮,” 𝙖𝙣𝙙 “𝙖𝙗𝙨𝙤𝙡𝙪𝙩𝙚 𝙩𝙧𝙪𝙩𝙝.”

Setting out with a purpose to make this works, the opposite of precise or pre-planned has really forced me to grapple with creativity, acceptance of mistakes and embrace of imperfection.

In many ways my artistic mind has always functioned like a camera, seeking to reproduce rather creative new (this is why I also think I have a natural and untrained knack for photography). But that had always been my style - pick a subject, study it, upscale it, downscale it, replicate it.

I think this is also why photorealist artists like Simon Stålenhag, Marc-André Castanger (Earthcrusher), and Yoann Merienne are my favorite contemporary (non bitcoin) artists. However, few me, if my subject disappeared so did my artistry it seemed, I always struggled to create my own freeform artwork that I would feel proud of. At some point in college, I become extremely self critical of this flaw, I let it become an artistic insecurity, and begin a slow journey away from art via simple neglect.

But Inspired by the community that is #bitcoin I am compelled and energized to pick up the pen again after so many years. But this time I want to do it by embracing my artistic insecurities rather than avoiding them. I am finally ready to go with them and through them, to see where they lead and to discover how I may grow artistically. That is why these “SAT” pieces are interesting and special to me.

When I draw the starting shape, I know it will be off, it will be wholly imperfect no matter what I do. Each time I make a starting shape, something in me recoils and bristles at this initially, but Im learning to let it pass. I realize that unless I want this project to be an avante-garde exercise in wasting hundreds of sheets of expensive marker paper in the act of getting nowhere, I must adapt. When a shape is “too” off I correct it with a new line, I see now that this creates blocked off spaces that I can either fill in or leave negative for artistic effect.

And what’s more, I’m realizing that viewer, one who may enjoy my art, does not see these as “mistakes.” What is a challenging process to immerse in randomness and haphazard whimsy for me, may strike another’a eyes as calculated, deliberate, inspiring, or even profound. And this, to me, is a beautiful thought. 💜🧡🤙🏿⚡️

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