“Untitled” (Smile Scars) by Joel Picklum

Size (cm): 105 x 115
House paint, acrylic, oil stick, spray paint on synthetic linen
“Untitled” (Smile Scars) is from a previous exhibition “It Was Written” in 2023. My last body of work which explores human error and it’s lack of ability to not be influenced by stimulus. These works are made to trigger your thoughts and subconscious at an attempt to seed new thought paths with the textured layers accompanied text and grim imagery. Doing so can generally leave the image blind as you try to insert your personal agenda or attach specific emotion to what you have witnessed, stimulated. The crude sense of the world always bleeds through the paper as it sits so grey in a glass house.