Alexander vanRossum

Random art moment.  I tend to dabble in Photoshop and Illustrator when i need to relax or unwind a bit from the constant plugging at code, and when I do, sometimes I come up with something that I actually find definable as art.  I will be sharing the technique used to manufacture this effect in the future, I figured it out when I had to make a temporary place holder album cover for AmberSky 2.  This piece is the first in a series, that will actually encompass canvas and various types of paints and other medium, all of which will eventually be for sale, in case you were wondering =).

ARTISTIC EXPRESSION, GRAFFITI STYLE, 1 EACH

Here’s the piece’s explanation:

ARTISTIC EXPRESSION, GRAFFITI STYLE, COUNT 1 EACH is based, mostly i think, on my Military history – I have a weird happy place when I think of the drab, bland, unfeeling and generic manner in which the military expresses what something is.

I thought to myself one day, what if art were approached in the same manner? Where the artist expresses himself in a way that doesn’t expose any immediate emotion, but at the same time, you feel as if the work itself has a purpose, much as the object in the box that the military has designated “MISSILE, GROUND TO AIR, STINGER TYPE, ONE EACH” contains within it something far more powerful and inherently useful than it’s utilitarian description would have one believe?

Perhaps I’m grasping at straws, perhaps not. Either way, I feel as if this actually means something, at least to me, despite all outward appearances.

Not actually painted on a wall, because I find computers far less illegal to tag.