ODE TO A NIGHTINGALE

Inspired by the poem by John Keats, and the great songbird. This envelopes everything that I try to accomplish with my artwork. The humbling idea that we are all connected, to each other, the universe really, this digital world-even after death. Addressing mortality, without mourning. Your story, your artwork, what you write, your ideas, your decaying body that feeds the earth, the ashes of you washes into everything, and lives on. As with all of my artwork, I use erasure on the same photograph taken by me in many of my artworks, ripping it into pieces in many different layers. I sculpt those into something new, further painting to create. For this artwork I also used several AI generated artworks for added texture and shape. I use short, visible strokes to blend all of our connections together and our separation. Blending life with death, calm with chaos, the night sky with daybreak. The flowering blooms of that plum tree, and the mutual warm feeling on my skin-that is dirt and dust, where life can feed and grow, to burn and again feeding life. Concept: ©MONOGRAMA - #GUARDIAN113 - Geo Location: http://bit.ly/41ixDRw