dayoungl Looking Outwards -06

For this week’s topic on “randomness”, I chose to write about artist Cy Twombly. Cy Twombly is a famous American painter who is known for his stylistic freely-scribbled, graffiti-like, large-scale paintings. Twombly drew inspiration from mythological stories and expanded it into his own way of representing a cultural memory. Just like the painting above, his paintings are compose of variety of colour palette. However, oddly all the colours come together and create an unique harmony; not one colour seem to pop predominantly and overpower the other strokes on the canvas but every strokes are in perfect harmony. Perhaps, this is the point where we should be asking ourselves about where to draw the line between randomness and intentionalness in his painting. Even though the strokes he painted on were random, his colour choice may not have been. To apply this on my creative process, I think this made me thought about where my subconscious is based on: What I think is random, is it really random?