Spiraling

Friday, November 11, 2022

There are a few shapes that I’m naturally drawn too (pun intended). Stars and spirals. Not really sure what that says about me. Freud would have a field day. Maybe it says something about the universe and how I fit into it. Maybe it has something to do with my obsession with Alice in Wonderland and falling down the rabbit hole. My daughter says it’s my descend into madness.

Too late. I’m already there.

I wanted to use my color shifting, iridescent paint tonight and this spiral gradient just made sense. They didn’t blend as much as I hoped they would. Not sure if it’s the paint, or the way I was painting. Either way, I decided that it was too plain, so I added the black and white stripes.

Does the imperfection of theme bother me? Yes. Did my step-mom fall in love with it? Yes. Is it her’s now so I don’t dwell on the stripes and wind up destroying the painting in my attempts to fix them because I’m an obsessive perfectionist with ADHD? Also, yes.

Maybe there’s another level of madness I can descend to after all.