By
Db Waterman
Piece description from the artist
This colourful Mixed Media artwork on a large square canvas is about a girl who lives in a big expensive penthouse and has everything her heart desires. Except boyfriends and girlfriends. She is protected from the outside world.
She wants to go outside to play, but instead she has to use binoculars to see what is happening outside through the large windows.
What she sees is a colourful, attractive outside world that she would like to be a part of.
The inspiration for this artwork is the fact that many children today play more inside than outside. Not only because they prefer to be busy with their phones and games, but also because the outside world has become less safe for children.
The inspiration for this technique are the torn posters and peeling paint on old city walls. For many people a sign of neglect and decay, but for me a source of inspiration. I try to recreate these old walls with posters in my mixed media technique. It is almost always the basis for my works of art.
Because of the many layers I apply with this mixed media / collage technique, there is a lot of structure and many small details can be seen in the artwork.
I assemble original photography, assorted papers, acrylics, oil, charcoal, ink, and pencil in my works. The variety of resources I am able to use has proved indispensable to me. The biggest challenge the collage medium posed was its unforgiving lack of transparency. Finding a way to replicate the effects of transparency afforded by paint, especially watercolors, was a large victory for me. The preparing labor shows through in my collages; layer upon layer of material remains visible in the finished pieces. I believe my body of work is characterized by my skill for reinvention. Having always loved the appearance of weathered walls plastered with peeling paint and old posters, I revive this aesthetic with hopefully a keen and professional eye. The creative objective of my work is to “make something beautiful out of dilapidation.” My tableaus explore the dissonance between old and new materials, intertwined in the most beautiful way possible to create dreamlike and melancholy images.
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