“Substance”
As
an artist living in the age of information, my work concentrates on the
deterioration of young minds due to the overload of mass media. I focus on the
destruction of the younger generations with the use of nuclear bombs as a
metaphor for mass media. Children are desensitized to topics surrounding war, death, and
brutality. Focus is placed on beauty and color stimulation to attract a younger
group to live a carefree life. These are paradigms of information that censor the destruction
surrounding humanity by the overload of beautiful substance in the media.
The subject matter of each painting is
questioning the realization of the world’s horrors. I use acrylic collage, and
acrylic medium transfers in my process to create a multi-layered source of
information. My
works are juxtaposed with capricious substances and embellished with the
portrayal of children. My use of color harmonies feed the viewer’s desire for
aesthetics and entices movement further into the space of speculation.
Identifying the ways that various colors affect our minds psychologically, I
seek to incite an emotional response rather than create an image of an
experience. Avoiding the portrayal of a singular focus, I am concerned with
using color and form to make the works accessible to the viewer as they examine
the paintings. My use of color compliments is a tool to attract the viewers
towards a candy-like dreamscape with horrific realities.
by: Jason Rodriguez
The first Candy Bomb!
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