War and Peace, Compassion, and Hate

Many of my ideas and thoughts as a person revolve around war. Ever since I was a kid I drew battle scenes of all types. Gun fights, sword duels, and epic military clashes. In the past year or so, however, a new branch of thought has arisen. Compassion, love, peace. I have always detested war and the suffering it brings, but I have always known how to depict it. Compassion, love, and peace are things that are artistically unfamiliar to me. The image above was an attempt to create the emotion of exhilarating joy. While there is some of that, also present is a sad nostalgia. How one controls the personality of an image is a skill I wish to develop further.

This group of artists, especially Elay, hit the nail on the head. Elay’s texts relate to my desire to promote compassion and love. These concepts are quite underdeveloped in my mind, but in general this is a direction I’d like my work to go in. If I could figure out an effective way to translate Elay’s ideas into my own… Perhaps I should become a street artist.

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