Obsession is a track of my personal experiences, in particular to a romantic abusive relationship. Abstract Expressionism is adapted for artists to express freely through visual elements: Stripes represents principle, which later crashed into pieces and washed away.
In Obsession, Stripes represents principled, from being principled and straight, in which later turns into lines that have crashed down and falling into pieces, it’s the inner-obsession that destroys me. From this, I looked through Bridget Riley’s stripes paintings as well form representations. Personal experiences shape all of us, the past teaches us lessons and the way we perceive things now and in future. The title has given a hint about Obsession, it tracks down my obsessive behaviour towards a romantic relationship, crying with tears has become an obsession to me and I enjoyed how it makes me cry.
I’ve used both nail-polisher and acrylic paints. Nail-polisher is a notable feminine symbol, I worked on it towards a female perspective to show my commitments towards this relationship. It also shows a development of crying as an obsession, the proportion grows from bits to a largest possible scale, it provides a contradictory between joy and depressed. By vertically placing it the other way round, it communicates my feelings of being obsessed throughout. Besides, when I review from the very beginning, this relationship was abusive in the first place.
I shared similar colour schemes with Giorgio Morandi's still life paintings, it gives a piece of frustration and repressed emotion, and it also unified the series of paintings.
Personal experience can either brings up a person or kills it; after all, experiences are only past tenses, it's all depends on how you perceive it and make use of it in your life ahead.
