Chemical Imbalance
2010
Chemical Imbalance
Chemical Imbalance (13)
Chemical Imbalance is a small oil painting, part of the "Illuminations" series I completed between 2008-2016 of highly detailed (what I would characterize as "medieval" or at least monkish or goliardish - as the case may be) paintings.
'Chemical Imbalance' is a romantic farce exploring the pseudo-science of inebriation!
An alcehemical aperitif, a heiroglyphic swizzle of symbols stirred in a rich, nutritive broth of rancid embalming oils and radioactive syrup.
In the Mortuary of the god's, festering deities of obsolete faiths lay dreaming drugged dreams. The oblivion of absolute internment awaits them, yet in their dying drunkenness they grow wanton and whimsical. Their mythic bodies of knowledge become disoriented, and, like ancient mantles of ice crumbling into the sea, melt into the raw ectoplasm that begets new achetypes. So it is that this divine mortuary is quite a swinging place - a kind of orgy.
Chemical Imbalance is part of the 'Illuminations' series, displayed in Berlin, Los Angeles, and New York as well as at the Institute of Crazyology in 2013. The painting was displayed as a glowing lightpanel suspended in a dark room.
Other paintings in the Illuminations series include: