Acrylic on canvas, 16″x20″
I started this without having an idea of where it would go. Some thoughts that arose in my mind while painting it:
Structure (economic activity) determines superstructure (culture & politics), but not absolutely. Ideas escape the confines that have been set up by economic imperative. Along with its designed parameters, the economy has also pushed for overflow to happen, inevitably and integrally. That’s evolution, which is always a process of active contradiction. The structure is still there underlying everything, but it begins to blur and go off-kilter as the superstructure pulls out of it and drags it along, pulling it out of shape even while it’s being shaped in turn.