First Time

A Mondrian look-alike?

I tried to convey something primal, at the root of our conscious soul. I there fore implemented Mondrian’s artistic philosophy of abstract minimalism, which strives to manifest pure and primal states of existence or consciousness, of balanced perfection.

Mondrian makes use of only horizontal and vertical straight lines, he closes only rectangles and quadrangles in formed shapes deriving from the multiple lines intersections, and he only uses the three primary colors: yellow, red and blue, and the two non-colors black and white.

I on the other hand was trying to convey a feeling of disarray and pain. I bent Mondrian whenever it suited my needs, I distorted his traditional use of the basic color scheme in order to enhance what I felt that needed to be enhanced, and broke his rigid compositional scheme in order apply some human touch and figure into the composition.

So let’s call this figurative-abstract then …with a twist. Although I promised not to have a style…

Mondrian’s childhood experience? My own?

The wish to escape to a fantasy from this harsh reality is perhaps as intense as the reality itself. The open window offers hope, immediate yet distant.

And so, let there be no doubt as to the theme of this artwork: the used condom… why a real condom in a Mondrian look-alike? Because it draws immediate attention as the symbol of the artwork’s theme. No better way of doing this, then to link us back to our real world, outside the walls of the perceptions of “art”. This is real. And this is also the dull white of desires as opposed to the bright white of freedom, which indeed nothing can describe better than plain white, but broken… nothing is that easy…

The caption of the artwork also manifests this. I am trying to convey an immediate message which is actually a full story: of atmosphere, of perspectives, of feelings, of thoughts; of absence, of pain, of fears, of child abuse; of hope, of growth, of freedom of choice, of true optimism…

And before you start asking: No, it is not my personal story, I just deeply identify.