This is for the Wacom "Bring Your Vision to Life" Good vs. Evil contest.
I felt like I needed to submit something since the contest had such an open theme.

Interpretation:
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In color theory, there is deep darkness and there is bright light, but when brought in the presence of all the midtones, they seem so stark and polar that all of the important middle values that define depth are overwhelmed and lost in the contrast. This painting parallels the aforementioned concept with people as a whole- I find that the concept of good and evil drives the majority of people's lives, and the need to categorize acts, people, and other things into categories is possibly the root to a greater evil- discrimination.
Given this, consider how as paint comes out of a tube - it looks clean and immaculate - the inherent "good" in our society. But as it mixes with the occasional negativity (or "evil") in life, it slowly loses purity and becomes more identifiable as a shade of gray. All people have various shades and tints of gray within (not to mention splatters of black and white) but sometimes the individual's personality can get lost behind the overwhelming radical nature of a splotch of black, or "evil". If there is even a single blot on a person's reputation, all the beautiful things they have accomplished in life may not be realized due to the contrast between these areas and the human need to focus on the negative. I feel like the ability to overcome this predisposition can figuratively break down a large portion of the barriers people put up out of ignorance.
My message is to search into a person- look past the black splotch to the overwhelmingly white background.
Forgive, and don't discriminate.
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This is done in rollerball pen, white acrylic, and india ink. I love how acrylic textures up when you rub over it with a paper towel! Then india ink gets caught up in the pores and it looks fantastic...


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9"x12" cardboard
time not recorded- therapeutic
rollerball pen, white acrylic, india ink
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