This painting was based on drawing I made during a science conference, many of the presentations focused on transgenic mouse experiments, where the mice have been engineered to express special genes, or have certain genes "knocked out" (deleted). These kind of studies are very important and are supposed to teach us a lot about how humans work. The impression I had was when watching some of the presentations was that the experiments were quite 'flashy' but did not teach us very much, kind of like a movie that has a lot of special effects but not too much in the way of plot (Avatar?). To extend the analogy further, I likened the situation to a certain pop star (lady gaga) who seems to rely mostly on style and presentation rather than vocals and tunes. It's like they try to distract you with a lot of glitz and glam to cover the lack of content. It's a harsh commentary to draw this comparison to scientists. If you study the work you will see that many of the elements support the above-mentioned theme.
How do you grow as an artist? I suppose it doesn't matter as long as you do grow. I have gone through several phases, always trying to push technical and inspirational boundaries to the maximum. I feel like the doodle style is quite well advanced, it is actually somewhat 'easy' for me to produce such a painting by now, which means that I have to keep pushing until I don't feel comfortable anymore. The next frontier I want to push is that of the
narrative. In other words, to tell a story with the art.
22x15" cold press. Dec 2011/Jan 2012
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