"Burn your clothes and the helicopters will come" Made by me on August 27.
Made with Cardboard, Acrylics, and 4 brains.
Credit goes to a story a friend told me about a guy who went naked to Starbucks and the police sent 4 helicopters. Also credit to Jackson Pollock as this was painted on the floor.
PROCESS:
1. I painted the words "DIE CLOTHES" on the cardboard using the back side of the acrylic paint bottle. This is how I imagined the dude who went to the store naked felt.
2. I then proceeded to put red paint everywhere. This symbolized the burning & destruction of the clothes.
3. I mixed a bunch of paints on the side, got paint all over my body, especially black paint. This was the ash from the burning clothes.
4. I then used various body parts (hands mostly) to place the black paint on the painting.
5. Next was the helicopters. I mixed together paint in helicopter colors (blue, green, black, grey) then dripped it over the painting. You can see the bottom corner of where I mixed this paint in the top left of the painting.
EDIT:
I felt very good while making this painting. Please do not say it is good because it is clearly a massive mess.
Looks great! To me it looks like a cross section of a 'brain' in the center of the canvas, flecked with these spots of black like some malady creeping into the thought process. I imagine it's a good representation of the kind of feelings that lead you to strip naked and venture to Starbucks. Overall to me I get the impression of 'raw sensory input', the colours are the brain interpreting the environment, green blobs perhaps as the people in Starbucks (whom the subject sees as jealous of his freedom) the burnt orange of the fire that burned his clothes, the bright blue as the sky, as he looks up seeing helicopters approaxhing, the creeping black sitting on the back of his mind symbolising the darkness of mental illness overtaking him. Nice job dude!
May I say it is good because it is a massive mess? With that center with the red coming through there is a sense of majesty to it. Then there is the added value of your description of the rationale behind each step. Including the process as part of the art work, and it gets very interesting at least. I think Sister Wendy would like that, and she is my go to judge of art.