This is a real time recording of me improvising to five songs from Nightwish's Imaginaerum, while I am hearing them for the very first time! It was really fun to do, because I was mostly playing without care.
Drawings made on sticky notes, late 2017.
〜 Water, Earth, Fire, Air 〜
Lokum Yiyen Gündüz (The Day Eating Turkish Delight) January 2018
There is a process video here!
He was returning home, wondering if...
Sometimes the art process takes me nowhere near my own personal look on art.
This particular image started out with me painting a red circle, and continued without my own will. This is how it goes: There is a direct instruction in my head to paint a certain color in a certain shape in a certain place. After I do that, I get the second instruction that may appear very clearly or sometimes rather blurry.
Step by step I follow out this out of nowhere input, and I don’t judge whatever it may be doing. It is as though of I am not creating the image myself, but recreating an already existing image.
When I finish, I am unsure whether I actually like what comes out, since I never included my own taste and interest in it anyway. But I still pay it much respect since it comes from the other side with a reason.
From the deeps he comes. From the darkness he teaches the secret of love. Those who desire light know him not.