Third of my silhouette series first begun in May 2000. 'Chlorophyl' was conceptualized at this very time period but actualized in June of 2006. The series which began with 'The Decline Phase' which depicts my head as a mushroom cloud, being a fascination at that time period and also being the shape I found as reminiscent of the silhouette of my head at the time (with other more deep-seeded suggestions underlying and outwardly depicted), 'Chlorophyl' was at base a less dire interpretative continuation of this, that finding the shape of a Weeping Willow tree to be evocative of my head.
The concept came on an oppressively hot day during that May on a walk with a friend through back streets of heavy foliage, direct sunlight and little man-made noise. It felt the opposite of a nuclear winter, or more so a spring after such a winter where all that remained was a world overgrown by plants in the absence of humanity.
Though not planned for the parallelism beyond this self portrait variant study at the time, between the years of the first creation to this most recent came the finding of occult symbolism which was apropos in its relation. That symbolism coming namely from a book on Scientology depicting the inverted parallelism between the mushroom cloud and the tree, opposites yet equal counterparts. 'The Decline Phase', as name and its imagery suggests, was done so and inspired during an inwardly destructive and depressive period of my life. Equal to the harness of creative energy yet opposite in the method of its cultivation, 'Chlorophyl' is rightly its counterpart, it's inversion being executed and reinspired during a period of growth; destruction inverted is growth and so reflects as marking the first of several new pieces at the beginning of a tremendous and prolific artist fervor not felt so ardently in years.
A fourth in this self portraiture has been forthcoming since shortly after the conceptualization of the first.
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