True Love Cares for No Mercy

Been through so much struggle and confusion with her. She refused to let me in. I refused to let her go. In the end, we broke even, kind of.
I thought I understood love.
After so long, I know I saw love, pieces of it.

I have been trying to keep her name clean, through my bruises and pain.

If I can’t love you for all your beauty and faults, my accompany is soft violence. I stopped telling you the world I see, no matter how pretty it is in my eyes. If there is love, you will see it through joy and brightness. Until then, I standby in silence. Watching you till you find your happiness. Because I know you are worthy.
After so long, I know I saw love. And I saw you. Though my world is in black and my heart is blue. I see you 💙. I still believe, though I know true love cares for no mercy

The Amusing Rage

“How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.”

— Marcus Aurelius

It is funny to discover how dramatic a facial expression can change with a few slight alterations in angles, lines and shadows. When I made progress in this piece, my friends commented “oh, he doesn’t look that angry any more.” I answered “Great!”.

I often find elements of humor in serious situations.
There is often something really amusing on a face written in red capital letter “RAGE”.

I found myself secretly laughing as it is so “improper” to laugh in front of a face like that. People might think I am mad.
But really, is there such a clear line between anger and happiness?

Sometimes taking one step back, you are right back to realms of happiness. That is why Mr Rage is wearing a birds of paradise (the flower symbolises eternal joy & happiness).

Don’t lose control of your concious mind.

Like Mark Twain said “When angry, count to four; when very angry, swear.”

Breathe Again

One of the moments.

After many cold and dull winter days, I noticed a tiny dash of fresh green over a pale grey fence. Almost at the same time, I felt a gentle touch of brandnew spring sunshine on my cheek. I felt the warmth, the brightness and eventually the lightness.

I closed my eyes against it and thought “there shall be music”…then there was music, joy, sound and colours of my life. I felt I just started to breathe again, deeply, and freely. I felt I was alive again, after so long.

Every time after a moment like that, I thought to myself ” I am really a lucky one. I could start breathe again.”

Let The Journey Begin

DON’T WANNA START ANOTHER FIRE

The second piece of work completed in 2019 – Colour Portrait Practice No. 11 – “Don’t Wanna Start Another Fire.”

“…
Lovers in the night
Poets trying to write
We don’t know how to rhyme
But, damn, we try
…”
– “A Star is Born” soundtrack.
Yes I watched the movie today, I was obssessed and I am still humming 🎶

Have you had that moment when you had some music going and you were running around doing chores..or brushing your teeth, then that song lifted you off the ground. You had to drop everything to find out who it was and what it was before it disappears off some random auto-play list. And then you caught it, you read the lyrics, you googled and read everything about it. And then you were doomed for two days with that song built in your system.

Yes this was one of those moments. Those lyrics stamped me for two days now “…don’t wanna start another fire,..”. As a solution, I decided to channel the obsession out in the way of painting. For the entire 7 hours, I was working and singing, while my fluffy studio assistant sitting in my beanbag drifting in and out of sleep. I took a break taking him to the park but I don’t recall anything about the walk but the green grass. By 9pm, this piece was finally completed on my kitchen bench top. I was so glad I could wipe that bench top to put some food on and those lyrics finally past through my mind.

The original is now available through https://bluethumb.com.au/lilyirisart/Artwork/don-t-wanna-start-another-fire

Prints will be available on society6.com and Redbubble.com.au very soon. Hope you like it.