I think it's easiest for me to think of ecologies as separate environments that have various branches that come together and intermix with each other to form other ecologies and environments. According to the Neil Postman, “an environment is, after all, a complex message system which imposes on human beings certain ways of thinking, feeling, and behaving.”[1]
The painting above is actually a bunch of layers of different acrylic colors all mixing and meshing to create a background of color to create an ecology of emotion. I would like to believe that this background creation was born from my mindless thinking and blaring headphones. Simply letting loose. And then once I was aware of this looseness, I went ahead and created another layer that gave my painting an image and a meaning. Everything builds upon itself to create these environments.
I created a layer that used parts of my natural environment (i.e. the chair the man is sitting on) and my memory ( i.e. the lake-like scenery) intertwined with my state of mind. These two layers come together to create one painting, that belongs in a series of 10 paintings, which belong in a series of abstract works. Maybe one day a doctor that's trying to create a welcoming environment will buy it and perhaps a patient may gaze at it and forget altogether why they were even at the doctor's office in the first place. Because let’s face it, our environments affect our emotions and our emotions and passions are responsible for the drive that we need to overcome all obstacles.
[1] Media Ecology Association (2009) ‘What is Media Ecology,’ <http://www.media-ecology.org/media_ecology/>
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