Paintings inspired by Love
Love is the Answer Oil on Canvas , 12"x9" 12/2020
The Alchemy of Love Oil on Canvas 32"x24" 3/2021
The Oxytocin Harp 3D Holographic Lenticular 18" x 24" 6/2021
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This series of paintings is based on love.and the feelings it elicits. The electro chemical reactions to love in the brain, and the desire it causes.
We are here to evolve, learn, accomplish, inspire, and create. There are combinations of these elements that give us drive and will. No matter where we come from, what our status is, intellectual prowess, or position in life, I feel there is one more thing beyond the elements that makes most of us the same. Love. Beyond all the distractions and glamour, pain, and suffering, I feel we all want to love and be loved. I'll close this book with the wish that you have love in your life and heart and that it attracts the love you deserve.
"Love is the Answer" is the first of the series and depicts the love of a couple as they affectionately lean towards echother.They are formed simply by the archway the defines day from night. A golden film that seperates the dark from the light. Their love is universal and exists in the complexity that is the world around us. Each thermal whisp in the space time of the scene is executed to visulaize the wondrous complexity of even the most simple landscape. Know that the same complex fluidity flows within and throughout the space between your molecules, with each complex pocket formed dby the movement of temperature and corpuscular movement. The world around us is a wondrous place, but just behind the verneer of our senses, lies a world beyond the dreams of most.
Love is the Answer Oil on Canvas 12"x9" Louis Markoya - 2020
Love is the Answer is based on the tiny painting to the left, which has been brought to visualization utilizing the very latest in Neural software and deep dreams.
That painting which I did long ago was based on a combination of two Dali works shown below, Couple with Heads full of Clouds and Architectural Reminiscence of Millets Angelus.
THe Alchemy of Love Oil on Canvas, 32"x24" 3/2021
The Exquisite Sense of Immersion
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In this work I have brought the elements beauty and fluidity together in one visual and philosophical marriage.
Here the female form, perhaps in the mind of man the worlds most beautiful and superfluous form. It is s gently surrounded by the ecstatic form of the beta fins which encompass the woman, who, standing in front of a macroscopic white ink in water droplet, is becoming one with her self and her environment.
This is a similar but more fluid version of the ecstasy depicted in the recent painting "The Simultaneous Ecstasy of Feeling Both Everything and Nothing".
Except for the sky the world has dissolved in this work, and is only capable of portraying the slightest of shadows, as the fluidity of the scene is causing both the liquid and solid to enter into the gaseous form, allowing for even more rococo nuance to the forms of flow.
As discussed to some degree in my paintings previous and leading to this work, the edge of the submerged ink droplet forms transitions of beauty, mimicking the forms in nature which depict ecstasy, such as the fins of my white beta. and the flowing form of the female.
We have here a scene which depicts the beauty and innocence of ecstasy as well as the sensual aspect of ecstasy as form.
The fish again is an inspiration found in Thai photographer Visarute Angkatavanich's gorgeous book Beta Paradiso, a coffee table book of amazing photos of the majesty of beta fish.
The flowing form of this species fins mimics the creation of dopamine in the viewer, transporting them to the much forgotten but still embedded nirvanic state of intr uterine submersion. And for those moments the universe is a liquid, hallucinogenic and transforming world of pearlescent beauty.
