Canvas
Blue gamble
Original 40 × 50 cm painting on canvas. Made with acrylic paint, ink, pencils, markers, and newspaper collage. The work also includes elements from playing cards, a card, and a 3D-printed object. It is unframed.
Description
This piece was created spontaneously. I was in the middle of building my website for my artworks when I realized I didn’t actually have anything to showcase. So, I grabbed what I had around me and just went for it.
I covered the canvas with Russian newspapers I found lying around. I don’t understand Russian, but I love the texture and randomness that newspaper brings to my work. I chose blue simply because that’s what I felt in the moment. I added doodles, sprayed some areas with paint, and glued on objects from my “box of things I didn’t want to throw away.” These are fragments of my past—small items that once had meaning to me, now given new life in this piece.
One of those objects was a playing card, which, together with the uncertainty of the process, inspired the title Blue Gamble. Another was a 3D-printed grinder, given to me by a friend who had quit smoking. I had also left that lifestyle behind—over a year now—and I knew I wouldn’t go back. For a long time, the grinder just sat there, pointless in a box. On this canvas, it found a new purpose.
I covered the canvas with Russian newspapers I found lying around. I don’t understand Russian, but I love the texture and randomness that newspaper brings to my work. I chose blue simply because that’s what I felt in the moment. I added doodles, sprayed some areas with paint, and glued on objects from my “box of things I didn’t want to throw away.” These are fragments of my past—small items that once had meaning to me, now given new life in this piece.
One of those objects was a playing card, which, together with the uncertainty of the process, inspired the title Blue Gamble. Another was a 3D-printed grinder, given to me by a friend who had quit smoking. I had also left that lifestyle behind—over a year now—and I knew I wouldn’t go back. For a long time, the grinder just sat there, pointless in a box. On this canvas, it found a new purpose.