Welcome to the blog!
The main purpose of this blog is to showcase my abstract art, and to a lesser extent, my art in general. Besides doing abstract art I’m also into cartooning and am working on a graphic novel series at the moment. I also do some writing – short stories and poetry, mostly. I don’t think I’ll put any of my writings up but this is subject to change without notice. Who knows? Perhaps, from time to time, I’ll even write about things in a more traditional blog-like fashion.
Now the words ‘abstract art’ are loaded with pre-conceived notions and judgments. When a lot of people try to picture abstract art they just see glops of color thrown about here and there or deformed people with three noses and four ears. Some people will think to themselves, “Gee, this doesn’t mean anything, and the artist is just full of themselves.” Some people will even say that out loud and possibly in an even ruder fashion. Well, I can only say so much about abstract art as a whole; I’d rather talk about my own at the moment.
My abstract art has a dreamy and surreal feeling to it. It starts with me focusing my thoughts onto a certain feeling, topic, or event, and drawing random lines while thinking about the chosen subject. After I feel the time has sufficiently passed I look at the mess of random lines – and I think there’s something wonderful about the random lines on their own – and I start to interpret it. A distinct image emerges in my mind from within the lines. I suppose if you wanted to get technical and scientific about it you could call it visual matrixing aided by conscious and unconscious thinking. The end of it, though, is that I don’t know what exactly it is I’m going to draw until after I’ve drawn it.
I intend to update this blog once a week; Mostly during the weekends. I hope you come back every week to see what there is to see and I hope some of my art resonates with you.
–Alex Hinders