In this version of CircleSnake, I have set the lines in bright pink on a black background. The dark background almost swallows up the surface so that the circles and snaking lines appear like glowing traces - almost like neon light at night.
The motif itself remains similar: circles that open up, move apart, run out and return to the picture. But the pink colour makes the movement seem more energetic, more pulsating, almost electrifying. It reminds me of a mixture of rhythm and vibration, as if the lines themselves had a kind of frequency.
While the black and white version looks rather austere and the blue one calm and deep, the pink and black one is the loudest and most striking for me. It has something solemn, perhaps even rebellious about it - as if the picture is not holding back, but clearly saying: 'Here I am.
I work with whatever is right at the moment: Acrylic, photography, digital. A work may begin on canvas and end somewhere else entirely. I layer, discard, edit. Mixed media and collages are my style.
My great-grandfather was a painter. Oil was his thing, I work differently...
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