#47: At a Crossroads
Finishing my variation of Michelangelo’s Creation of Adam has left me with a strange mix of satisfaction and uncertainty. The painting feels like a milestone — not just because it brought together weeks of moiré experiments, but because it pushed me into new territory, reworking an image so deeply rooted in art history.
Now that it’s complete, I find myself asking: what’s next?
Pop-Art Experiments or Portraiture?
Part of me wants to keep going down the pop-art route — reimagining cultural icons through moiré, playing with images that already carry a weight of meaning. There’s something exciting about taking the familiar and bending it through this illusion, making it unstable, fractured, alive.
But another part of me is drawn back to portraiture — the faces that have always been at the core of my work. I imagine a portrait built from many colours, layered with the moiré effect, where the illusion isn’t just a trick but a way of exploring identity, depth, and perception.
Both feel possible. Both feel tempting.
The Weight of a Decision
This crossroads reminds me that every painting is a choice — not just about colour or composition, but about direction. Do I want to build a series around reimagined icons, or do I want to dive deeper into faces, finding something more personal within the moiré?
There isn’t a right answer. And maybe that’s the point.
Sitting in the Question
For now, I’m letting myself sit in the question. Not rushing the decision. Because art, I think, is often made in these moments of uncertainty — when you’re standing between possibilities, unsure of where the work will take you next.
What I do know is this: whether it’s pop-art experiments or colourful portraits, the moiré effect has opened up something that feels rich with potential. And the next step, whichever direction it goes, will carry that thread forward.
.M.
Be real.
Make art.
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