I’ve been wanting to learn to paint for years. I always just felt too intimidated. I love going to art stores and wandering the aisles, and I have a bunch of art supplies that I’ve had just sitting there untouched forever.
One night, I was home alone, and I got the wild hair. Fuck it. I just wanted to fuck around like a kid with crayons. I broke everything out on the coffee table while one of my nerdy documentaries was playing on the TV in front of me. This is where part of the inspiration of this comes from. Without saying anything more, I have always been intrigued with the idea and mythological images of the tree of life/Yggdrasil. It’s this, the idea of a holographic three dimensional reality and the stars Sirius A and Sirius B (as well as Orion’s Belt) that sort of guided me on this as I fucked around with the canvas. I had a vague idea, and I just played and let it take me whoever it went.
I had a great time, and I felt like a kid.
I guess that’s really the idea, isn’t it? .