I was fortunate to stumble upon this intriguing artist during my creative wonders. An award winning, Columbus College of Art and Design graduate is a highly valued and praised Illustrator and fine artist, who predominantly works with traditional media of paints (Acrylics and Watercolours)
His work, as far as I managed to realise, is highly poetic and deeply affecting; they posse certain element of realism but predominantly surreal in nature. For example painting “Life’s Objective” (http://www.ericfortune.com/plugins/p2003_image_gallery/popup.php?categoryid=6&p2003_sectionid=1&p2003_imageid=17 ) the female that appears in the painting generates a mixture of emotions within me, as the image is simultaneously sensuous and repulsive simultaneously.
The focal point of the painting is the top left corner where the girl is positioned. Her face expression implies deep thought, as far as I can tell, she is entirely consumed by them. She is dressed in white, summery dress, which in essence makes her look delicate and vulnerable and her hand gesture suggests the same notion. The part of the work that currently I fail to understand completely, is an image of a little toy, which mimics the pose of the girl.(It is positioned directly above her head) The only thing that comes to my mind, is further reinforcement of the qualities I listed earlier , plus the addition of emotions related to ones childhood innocence.
As my eyes travelled further down, a whole different spectrum of emotions occurred when I notice that girls’ legs have been sliced apart in multiple areas. Artist himself speaks of this notion that appears in some of his work: “I get a lot of questions about the slicing in some of my work. I see it as another metaphor, sometimes different depending on the context, I think mostly it stands for hurt or pain, physical or emotional.” And it appears as exactly that, as this work has certain nightmarish qualities, only the victim seems completely indifferent to what has happened.
Another character present in the painting is a metallic being that appears to completely hollow inside, and yet alive. Its empty, white eyes and sharp claws do not make an appearance of a delightful character. Even though positioned in the bottom right side of the painting, this being posses some strong intimidating qualities, that it appears as looming over the girl.
This image if dull of subtle emotions and sad beauty and as it appears it is the trademark of the artist.
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