'Lava Lens.'

Mediums Used: Acrylic, silver foil, liquidex pouring medium, silicone oil, expanding foam over canvas

An acrylic pour was dispersed over the expanding foam and exposed canvas of the composition, alongside a generous application of more acrylic paint to implement an impasto appearance of layering between the pigments. I painted each layer through all a-prima, wet on wet; as to initiate a lucid pattern of colours. I had no preconceived narratives or ideals toward my palette, my attitude throughout the creation of this piece follower an automatism approach throughout, a process in which you allow the unconscious mind to take control. I did this as I wanted the organic nature of a caldera sashayed by lava to pultrude through the surface .

Much like the essence of Joseba Eskubi I wanted my application of the medium, to employ a tactile approach, I wanted to elaborate on the organic subject matter and the obscured perspective of each impasto based stroke. Rather than mundane and muted, I wanted to explore the nature of colour through the caldera and embellish each crevice with vivid pigment.Though Eskubis work is somewhat austere in that the form is ordained by a veil of enigma and endeavours to create a caricature of chaos and conundrum through each stroke, I wanted my work to inhabit a sense of Eskubis nature in application, rather than palette. I find his work to be gently surreal and evidently peculiar.

'Lava Lens.' is a surreal, contorted form, shrouded by elements of abstract expressionism and tactile vulgarity. The focal points of 'Lava Lens.' are the textures and colours of which it emanates. Going back to automatism, rendering a composition through the unconscious mind, much like Rothko enables there to be a coherent relationship between colour, regardless it being complimentary or not. During the creation of this piece I found it to be somewhat meditative, in that I was not contemplating what colour to use where, or how I wanted to apply the pigment. My mind was free of criticisms and because of that I produced a lucid piece that reinstates our relationship with colour.