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Edge, 2023

Rupture, Thunderstorm, Riding, Surge, Mercury, Battle, Splashing, Mythology, Carrier, Beast-like, Oscillations, Scraps, Gills, Amethyst, Fury, Cascade, Perplex, Aspiration, Spilled, Nickel, Curtains, Smeared, Thickening, Carnation, Blasting, Harlequin, Extract

AAA?, 2019/2021

Started in 2019, finished only today

Sometimes completion of an art has more to do with acceptance it being completed🤔

I can already see four different essences here

Day 28, art

Art is carving from the void

I got totally exhausted trying to form this (and it’s not even finished)

Day 19, synthesis

I’m deeeeaaaad, lazy dead, probably burnout

I’m really out of strength to realign myself, this one from the last bits

Day 18, relation

In this artwork I can see classic composition

Or is there another reason why I feel like I’ve already seen it?

Day 17, laxity

It isn’t very good and made in a lack of time

I like the warmth feeling but something is clearly untrue

Day 16, suspense

Awaiting a verdict from the ancient nimbos

Scary and either bewitchingly beautiful

Day 15, uncertainty

No extra comments today 😶

Day 14, entity (more like monster)

I was kinda inspired by @thenewcoma but ended doing more “mine” colours

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Day 13, destruction

I’ve been experimenting today

The destruction of art or art of destruction🤔

Day 12, creation

Somewhy for me creation is associated with wave generated by a drop

Tried to create light and replete texture here

Day 11, tool

I have a lot of thoughts what is tool for artist and I ain’t no words to explain it

Not sure this artwork could either. Still

Day 10, define

Was a crazy day, crazy art comes aswell

I like the feeling, it’s almost like I’ve imagined it

Day 9, denial

It feels for me something like that

Now I probably can understand why in christianity it is associated with the Light Bearer

Day 8, desire

I’m justifying myself by the fact that it came to me in dream

Happened with nice composition, surreal soviet/erotic vibes

Day 7, act

Today I’m probably the opposite of the theme, I’m feeling lazy 🤤

Still that sketchy eye-vortex for you

Day 6, will

Sometimes I create works that are way too strange and chthonic, as if they are not from this world

The phenomenon remains a mystery to me too (like...why??)

Day 5, power

I tried to form it by compositions and colours from my visioning of power

Feels good

Day 4, colour

Honestly I’ve added this theme only to try this idea xD

I was kind of inspired by Bernard Frize, I think he’s really good

Day 3, order

Pretty ordinary one in everything - colours, texture, composition

Still good for daily artwork

Day 2, chaos

Never planned but the human silhouette appeared

Very ironic I find, yes

Created abstractober panel for 2021 and first one for it - Presence

Feel free to join in, feel free in your ideas in your ways, in your art

Themes are rather to give you some impulse rather than restrict either way

I’m not in the mood today :\\\\

Actually few days already

Kaleidoscope world, 2021

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Panorama, 2021

I usually don’t carry such artworks, but here is a contexture that feels so canon and right, I couldn’t pass.

Actually it is assembled from three different parts, you may see the seams.

Feeling Funky, 2021

Native stained glass, 2021

Maybe maybe — maybe maybe

I’m just fumbling around

Recast, 2021

Don’t think it is good nor finished

But I have like 4-5 time-devouring works in process

And have to put a period to be able to move on

Upd: was so compressed so here by fragments:

Hiiiiiii

PROCLAMATION, 2021

for me deliberate manifestation finally became misnomer

furthermore I feel that my unconscious realized more approached archetype

I’m totally dumbfounded with this everything and the might of this result

BTW here I can feel some echoes of Pollock’s early flows