Writing helps to process ideas and life in general and so I wrote this series of five short stories and then wrote them freestyle by hand in pencil and acrylic paint pen on square 7x7 art paper.
After this, I took one specific part of one story that (to me) summarizes the concept to the whole series and wrote it on a 25x12 inch canvas in neon acrylics.
I call these stories ‘rambling thoughts’ because you know when you’re really into something, you talk faster, maybe you say the same thing twice, and most likely hardly pause to take a breath? That’s what these stories are; they are ideas or concepts about life in general that made me excited and made me feel a bit uncool.
What I mean by uncool is to be your joyful, silly, unhinged authentic self and in a state where you’re so happy that you just don’t care about looking cool. Our most uncool times are where we do our best work, meet people that matter, discover and listen to music that we become obsessed with, and in a broad sense… find our purpose.
“uncool”
acrylic on canvas
25.5 x 12 in
The process of this painting was inherently uncool. I didn’t plan anything. I didn’t try to make it look “trendy” so that people would want it and instead I wanted it to look purposely a bit unhinged and ugly—hence the neons. I just had the words in my head and sketched them messily on the canvas and then messily painted random letters in whatever colour I felt like. Of course, I cleaned up the details but then added the splatters at the end to maintain a bit of the mess.
Not all of my work is that of a chaotic sort of reckless abandon but when you’re uncool, chaos is usually what happens.
this quick snap made it look almost glow in the dark… how (un)cool is that?