Controlled Chaos Series

Controlled Chaos – A perfect paradox one can say.  I relate it to martial law, traffic jam, spiders web or even an ant colony.   When one thing looks chaotic at first but when gazed at intently you know that it is still controlled.  That’s how I see this series of artworks I did -- splashes of colors, strong strokes in a movement that is not calculated, yet demonstrating order and organization in a way that is not obscure to the one who looks at it. 

Controlled Chaos

(Study)

24" x 24"

Acrylic on Canvas

Ironically, this is not a theme I realized I would delve into.  My hands have always been comfortable painting figures and landscapes.  But one day, I just wanted to play with colors in front of a canvas to release my artistic inclinations.  Also, I realized how my eyes have grown hazy over the years of designing and painting faces or life-like trees have been a hard line already.  Nevertheless, doing abstracts is not an easy feat I thought it would be.  Unlike figurative works, abstract paintings should be able to transcend the emotions it wants to evoke to its audience despite the intricacies of its texture, form, color and line.

Controlled Chaos

 (Summer)

48" x 48"

Acrylic on Canvas

Sold to Mr & Mrs. Sarren

As an architect, I am bounded by inevitable restrictions surrounded by my profession.  I design spaces to fulfill the wishes of my clients, injecting the knowledge and expertise I have accumulated through the years.  However, I am restrained by many factors such as budgetary concerns of owners, limitations of space and worse, the complexities set by feng shui if the owners subscribe to it.  Undoubtedly, I earn a living by designing structures to impress but it doesn’t mean sometimes that I like it personally.  I am now and then in a deluge of frustration because some things are just undesirable for me as an architect but I am left with no choice but to give in and just try to work out the unpleasant things.

Controlled Chaos

(Autumn)

Acrylic on Canvas

60" x 60"

Sold to Mr. Dennis Chua

So when I painted this series, I am soaring with freedom, freedom to choose my own colors, to stroke on any direction I want my brush to lead on.  I do not have to care about proportion or contortion.  I painted on my mood. I am not confined with the limitation of human body or the hues of nature.  Yet, I can still evoke control by putting personal details to make the chaos I just did an object of likeness.  It is not an art of work to impress but a piece to be appreciated by those who can accept the likelihood of what not. 

  

Controlled Chaos

(Winter)

36" x 48"

Acrylic on Canvas

Some of the pieces that are not tagged as sold are still in the confines of the gallery that I have trusted to the welfare of my art works.  You can coordinate with:

G/F HRC Bldg. 104 Rada St. Legaspi Village, Makati City

(Beside Planters Bank & 7-11)

(02) 3439670, (0917) 8366998, (0922) 8780748

theOCgallery@yahoo.com