Where Do You Think We're Going?

set up:

Photos from the show:

T. Mortimore - Paintings round 2

This plastic life kills us and outlives us. Man-made environmental pandemics have quickly become irreversible. Our life is not sustainable yet we live each day in denial.



Billions of years of perfection have created us. Humans are capable of ending the cycle of life as we know it, forever. Not us, we say it doesn't matter.



We ignore a problem so big it involves all humanity. So selfish, we are, destroying a world that has given us everything.



In turn, our souls have nowhere to go. Unless you believe we will sit guilty, viewing our dead world from paradise.

This week I painted some more 8.5 x 11" gouache paintings. I'm still working on titles but I created accompanying text for each painting (shown above). From class today I received constructive advice on ways to incorporate the text within the painting or outside of it. I will be creating a mock-up book for next week displaying the text either on separate pages, or on top of the paintings. I have printed out copies of the paintings and will be layering text with tracing paper and also writing directly on top to get some more ideas.

here is the full text:
This plastic life kills us and outlives us. Man-made environmental pandemics have quickly become irreversible. Our life is not sustainable yet we live each day in denial. Billions of years of perfection have created us. Humans are capable of ending the cycle of life as we know it, forever.

Not us, we say it doesn't matter. We ignore a problem so big it involves all humanity. So selfish,  we are, destroying a world that has given us everything. In turn, our souls have nowhere to go. Unless you believe we will sit guilty, viewing our dead world from paradise.



( Creation of life - 17 x 11")

This was difficult to scan but I created this poster size painting last week to further illustrate the greatness of our creation and how we are all created from infinite bits of matter that will be recycled into new life. I was also hoping to explain how small and insignificant human life really is in the grand scheme of things.

T. Mortimore - Sketches, and Creative Writing

Just to keep the creativity flowing I have been keeping a sketch book of drawings and writing. During week two I made these drawings about the creation of life. I hope to bring in a wide variety of afterlife beliefs together and create my own afterlife belief that centers around unexplainable cosmic creation, reincarnation, and pollution. I just recently revised my thesis statement to incorporate these thoughts into something coherent. The page has not been typed up but I will include a photo of the page for now.

I then wrote some poetry about my concept, and a short story. I will include the full notebook pages so you can see the sketches on the page as well.

The last image is a poem I titled "Siri, why do we exist, and what will happen when existence ends?"

The completed version is included below.

T. Mortimore - paintings

During the first week I created two gouache paintings on 8x11 Yupo. I felt inspired to paint but didn't "see" the meaning of them until I could step away after. The paintings were clearly about the apocalypse to me. The red one feels like a blazing inferno, or someone trapped in the window of a burning building. The blue gave me a sense of claustrophobia and immense pressure, I imagined the white form in the blue as a spirit drifting down. I used two photos I took as reference for the colors and space used. They are included below above the paintings.









Considering how the world will end has influenced me to consider the different ways in which our bodies decompose and how much waste and toxins would either be burned into gases in the atmosphere or contaminate the ocean.