User:Gunitag/Painting

The Law of Conservation of Matter states that matter may not be created nor destroyed, only changed in form. All creative endeavours are subject to the same Law. We do not create out of nothing but simply change or utilise mediums to produce an effect–a visual representation of the cognitive process which deigns us to place this next to that, chip away here or there, mix this with a cropped version of that, and so on and so forth. The piece, the work is the visual representation of the drive which leads me here–the passion which compels me to do.

Why am I not satisfied with the thought only or the inner mind’s vision? Why do I seek to engage certain objects and often in ways they may have never imagined? Why does a particular scene hold a significance for me or lead me to think that to capture it would be an or the ultimate expression of my artistic thought? And what makes me think that at any point what I am doing is creating?

Some artists admit their predilection for collage or pastiche. We even have words like collage or pastiche to lend credibility to this sort of endeavour. But it is all as such. We are all simply changing that which was already there. No not some postmodern apathetic notion of the futility and unoriginality of existence in this time. It is a continuum upon which we sit. Ashes to ashes...paint to canvas. The matter remains the same only altered despite the contortions we exact upon it. And despite its inclinations otherwise. To be an artist is to be despotic with one's tools. We make them do what we want them to do; we change them in form. Or do we?

When I put paint to canvas it remains paint and canvas. I have simply exacted a juxtaposition neither the paint nor canvas had the will or means to exact. I do not create, I rearrange.

Art may not be created or destroyed, only rearranged in form.