Obsidian Reverie (2024)
TriptychAcrylic on canvas
24 in x 30 in
Obsidian Reverie is an exploration of obsession.
This piece was inspired by singer Naomi Sharon’s song Another life, where she sings about the need to escape from reality into a life where she and her past love are engulfed in their passion for one another. When I was listening to the song, the drums and bass in the song felt like a repetitive mantra praying, “don't let your love run out”, that spoke to a deep yearning like obsession.
Wanting to portray obsession meant digging deeper into the subconscious, what it would look like and how it would feel. I wanted to emphasise the multiple layers of obsession, from the surface to the deepest and darkest aspects of it. The poses are unnatural and sometimes incoherent. Layering them on top of each other created a puzzle of light and dark shades emphasising some features and blurring others, adding to the obscurity, loss of control and compulsion caused by obsession. The two canvases on the sides are similar but different; the middle figure remains the same, but the two beside it are interchanged, making the figures more visible on one canvas and less visible on the other. The middle canvas showed a different perspective of obsession.
It was more dramatic and animalistic and looked like a scene from an exorcism movie. When I was trying to capture the meaning of obsession and the emotions that triggered it from the song, I thought this image would fit perfectly. It had an unnatural element and atmosphere that was detached from the other two canvases
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