Allen Vandever art post “Self-Punishment”

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Self-Punishment Acrylic, Epoxy Resin by Allen Vandever

This painting captures a moment when conscious and subconscious thought, converge in a lucid-dream state. The forest is vibrant with life and natural splendor, desires frolic naked among the trees, but a ghostly oppressor strikes disguised in the colors and forms of our heroine’s dream. Disgusting girl! Your thoughts are depraved, vile, animalistic! So powerful is the sadist-translucent that we cannot escape its grip even in our dreams. This frustration, pain, and fear of punishment deny us the ecstasy of fulfilling our true desires. Often, it is subtler, simply preventing us from discovering what our desires truly are.

When I think upon the progress of Modern Man, I am mesmerized by our accomplishments, but through our society’s progress many of our values have taken on the status of rigid, factual nomenclature, limiting the possibilities of personalized self-discovery. This translucent boundary prevents us from freely creating and exploring dimensions for our own experiences, stifling our potential to bring further enlightenment to the collective conscience. As creatures amidst our own modernity, we cannot be blind-sighted by relative comfort; we must continue the struggle for progress. So, in my pursuit to bring this struggle to light, I embarked on this painting hoping to portray how beautiful such freedom could be.


Self-Punishment  Acrylic, Epoxy Resin by Allen Vandever
This painting captures a moment when conscious and subconscious thought, converge in a lucid-dream state.  The forest is vibrant with life and natural splendor, desires frolic naked among the trees, but a ghostly oppressor strikes disguised in the colors and forms of our heroine’s dream.  Disgusting girl!  Your thoughts are depraved, vile, animalistic!  So powerful is the sadist-translucent that we cannot escape its grip even in our dreams.  This frustration, pain, and fear of punishment deny us the ecstasy of fulfilling our true desires.  Often, it is subtler, simply preventing us from discovering what our desires truly are.
When I think upon the progress of Modern Man, I am mesmerized by our accomplishments, but through our society’s progress many of our values have taken on the status of rigid, factual nomenclature, limiting the possibilities of personalized self-discovery.  This translucent boundary prevents us from freely creating and exploring dimensions for our own experiences, stifling our potential to bring further enlightenment to the collective conscience.  As creatures amidst our own modernity, we cannot be blind-sighted by relative comfort; we must continue the struggle for progress.  So, in my pursuit to bring this struggle to light, I embarked on this painting hoping to portray how beautiful such freedom could be.
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Posted: November 7th, 2009
at 6:10pm by Koookiecrumbles

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Categories: Art Theory, Contemporary, art, myninjaplease, philosophy

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  1. Well…. I read this painting two different ways. I feel that the two women are actually the same person who is either self inflicting punishing herself or she is battling inner-self.

    Dawn Rosales

    7 Nov 09 at 7:36 pm

     


 

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