.Mural.
Haven't gone back to the mural since I posted about it earlier, but I'm thinking about it right now. I'm worried I may never finish it. Like the way I don't eat the last bite of a sandwich because I don't want it to end, and leave it as an offering to the gods. The less I work on it, the more units of utility pleasure I obtain. My mural has been a safe place for me to go. Painting is so therapeutic, I recommend you try it sometime. Now that I've gone back and stripped those troublesome areas, I'm really going to get back on track and make these two birds electronic. People will be sitting in the main dining area, take a bite out of their taco, and see a scene of avian blood sport. The owner suggested I paint some sugar skulls and other day of the dead imagery, but I said no. There's no way you can ask me to paint sugar skulls in here, I refuse. So then he told me to do whatever I wanted, and I did this drawing of 3 babies climbing a solid black obelisk. When they rejected the babies, I decided to paint birds because last year I did paint a lot of parrots. I chose fighting roosters because when roosters fight they are in dynamic poses. The two birds come together in battle, and when they are in proximity of one another, the birds make a shape. The shape looks good when enlarged, even when it has been stolen directly from Deviantart.com. The viewers eye is drawn to the perimeter of the shape and arcs from the left to the right. Light passes through the shape, bounces off the substrate, and back into the viewers eye via the shape's visual z-axis. These dynamic birds are fighting to the death in a centuries old cruel practice. I honestly believe that birds should never be made to fight, but that also birds should fight if that is their free choice. My birds are uncaged and free. They fight for dominance over a territory in a location unknown. In my imagination, I am trying to decide if painting fighting cocks is offensive by name or imagery? is it promoting cruelty to animals? Am I a bird abuser by proxy? Am I the accomplice to these crimes, and every crime that goes after it from now until infinity? I have tried very hard to get a major point across, which is: how could someone be critical of two fighting animals when they are just a fighting animal themselves? How could someone be critical of a fighting bird, while they themselves bite into a taco filled with the same fighting bird. You know, I don't know how far this goes, and I don't know if I really want to find out. With this mural, I have perfected how to waste time, feel productive, and have something selfish to talk to people about. I open up a picture of the mural on my phone and show anyone who will look. I want compliments, but I do like some criticisms. Sometimes I ignore suggestions because actual collaboration will only take away from an individual vision's purity. We must seek the purest visions always.