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Really Good David Shrigley

I think I'm starting to get obsessed...:)) but I liiike iiiiiittttt!!! :D

Obsessions

Obsessions, 100x80cm, oil and acrylic on canvas, 2013

I have never wrote on such a public place about my own work...

This is my first one, so be gentle :))

I thought it is interesting to write about this painting because this caused me to really understand what it means that a painting is not finished when I put the brush down.

This is the last work I did for the admissions to the Royal Academy, and I think I thought it up to be the most complex of them all and the most honest one as well, as this painting incorporates a lot from what I am interested in right now.

It is about all kinds of obsessions that people have nowadays and I have noticed that some are addicted to shopping, to cigarettes and all that kind, or sweets or booze and drugs, or food that it's really bad for them.

I thought I would show them a way out of it, in a really simple equation that Dr Todd Kashdan thought up as a solution and he might even be right.*

The equation said (Mx16+Cx1+Lx2)+(Tx5+Nx2+Bx33) - be curious, live in the moment, nurture relationships, be grateful and exercise...in short.

I even put it onto a white paper to make it really visible and put a treasure chest on which the objects stand, with an open lock so you could feel that at any given time you could open up the treasure chest and all those objects will fall and you will be left with the treasure, a Happy Life...

Than an interesting thing happened at the interviews to the RA Schools. The professors questioned everything about me and my work and somehow as I was explaining how this work is a bit social and critical... I forgot to tell then, but it made me realize that the formula itself is representing a kind of obsession about how to be happy. My Facebook page is fuuuullllll with these how to be happy, healthy, wise posts, and it is somehow an obsession just as the others. It is a new kind of obsession... 

It was really interesting to see how my work evolved so much after being finished. From a point where it had problems listed and an obvious solution it is now a very nice all ironical painting, just the problems painted in a way that people might think I made it because I like those things...as most of my paintings are misunderstood.

This was my great discovery...wow...:))

* (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2378821/The-formula-happy-life-Stay-curious-live-moment-look-health.html)