Opposing angles
The image on the right that inspired the background to this lettering is not resin, as one might have guessed. I was at a conference when this art was presented in one of the projects. It would be a disservice to the story if I tried to retell it, so I will just give the basics. A cosmetics company wanted to breathe new life into their products. They hired someone who had not worked in cosmetics advertising before. This resulted in a suite of beautiful abstract images, made by mixing nail polish and photographing it with a macro lens.
Often with my personal art, I would try to create complicated backgrounds from simple elements. This background started as a series of diagonal lines, that I copied and flipped so that I could intersect them in different ways. Though the lettering includes the word ‘call,’ this quote has nothing to do with telephones, they were simply an interesting element to add to give the background some variety.
It’s always struck me that the only truly finite resource we have as human beings on earth is time. And in a grand display of the perversions of human nature, on a whole we have made time expensive.
I love making art, but I am only able to when I have spare time, and generally spare time means that I have spent less time working, which means I have less money. If there’s an alternate reality where I was born into a different place and time, and lucked out with wealthy parents whose wealth I would inherit; I hope that version of me is out there making art all day every day.