I have a big collection of unfinished paintings, and for a long while I did not know why I could not make myself finish them, but after watching all of them around my house, like a collection, I finally realized a common trade that could be the reason keeping me from working on them.
I care a lot about each one of them and I think I am not capable of selling any, but this is not the reason they remained at the incomplete stages.
They all portray a negative emotion(for me). - this is the real reason - and it looks unbelievable to me that I did not realized this before.
As Freud said memory works sometimes as a defense and coping mechanism. We tend to forget (like a meaningless memory lapse) about the things we cannot face.
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This painting in particular it is unfinished and untitled.
I love it , but there are things about it that I don’t like (composition mostly), I would like to add elements to it to make it better, but I cannot find them in my mind, and for a long time I thought it is my incapability to find an aesthetic fix to the composition, but in reality is so far from that.
I have an emotional barrier keeping me from finishing this painting.
I wanted to express the universal guilt of our human race, that consumes without regard for what we live behind.
But the reality of this painting is that it displays in front of myself, in a cruel way, my personal guilt, that I am not able to face.
This painting is a mirror to me , showing my ugly parts, but it could be a mirror for you too, and I am curious what you see in it.
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Sincerely I would love to see this transformed in a positive emotion, or described as such, by someone that is able to see something different in that mirror.
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