“A YEAR OF PRISMATIC LIGHT”
Part III of IV : “Baby Steps”
In 2022, I would embark on a yearlong project with my art. Previously, I would habitually create 3-part miniseries to integrate into instagram’s 3-post grid and would explore a variety of different aesthetics and ideas with each series. This year however I decided to begin a longer four-part series that would change with the seasons. This concept was vaguely inspired by The Caretaker’s “Everything At The End Of Time”. Where that musical project consisted of six parts that would gradually portray and explore the dark progression of dementia with each stage, I wanted to go with a more... “optimistic” route.
I’ve always considered my art to be very introspective and reflective of my mental health. I wanted to convey the journey of depression, acceptance and healing with this series. Each season would be a new progressive step in that journey. Each part would consist of a specific aesthetic and that would carry on until that part was complete and I would then move on to the next part of the series. Each part would consist of 18 pieces, making up a total of 72 pieces for this entire project.
To put it plainly: the series would gradually shift from dark to light in terms of aesthetics and subject matter.
At a certain point in this part of the series, there was a slight divergence in the creative process. During this time, I was saying goodbye to a lot of things in my actual day to day life and that ended up having an effect on this series for better or worse. It was supposed to be the climax, the highest point, in the series and yet I was also feeling the lowest I had felt in that entire year due to things beyond my control. This was intended to be the point of the overall series where the subject had been acceptance and was willing to take the challenging steps of healing in their journey. It also meant saying goodbye to that past life of darkness and depression and in its own way can be strangely bittersweet. It's this and many other factors that can make the journey so challenging for many but even just making the smallest, tiniest of steps is an accomplishment worthy of recognition and should be valued.
The aesthetic used for this part of the series is very colorful and intentionally so. For me, color and vibrancy represents a world full of different dimensions. To me, color is joy, beauty, heartbreak, loss, anger and a myriad of things where if life would be devoid of all these things then... I wouldn't really see the point in living in that world. A desaturated life is something I am familiar with. In a previous time, I lived five years being unable to create anything. It was a world I left behind and in doing so, I found the color in life's experiences.
The aesthetic used for this part of the series is very colorful and intentionally so. For me, color and vibrancy represents a world full of different dimensions. To me, color is joy, beauty, heartbreak, loss, anger and a myriad of things where if life would be devoid of all these things then... I wouldn't really see the point in living in that world. A desaturated life is something I am familiar with. In a previous time, I lived five years being unable to create anything. It was a world I left behind and in doing so, I found the color in life's experiences.
That is why it's so important to me and partly why "RGB" is in my online handle.
