This piece was created in 2018 for an assignment that I had received in high school. We were focusing on surrealist art and needed to create a piece of art that could be considered surrealist. We could create the piece with which ever medium we prefer to work with. The only requirement for the assignment was that the artwork needed to be on a 14x20 piece of paper. I chose to use a blue ball point pen as my medium for the assignment. 2018 is when I began to experiment with ink mediums, using ballpoint pens had become very easy to me at this point in time. I was able to hatch, cross hatch, and use stippling techniques effectively.
The piece was based off a sketch I had originally made before I knew about the assignment. It was the amalgamation of flesh and bone at the bottom center of the piece. One side of its body has its muscles exposed while the other half is still covered. Atop the body sits empty sockets and a wriggling mess of eyes. Surrounding around that is teeth and ribs that form some kind of exoskeleton.
The second part that I had added to the piece was the face floating above. It appears at the very top, bleeding from the wreath of thorns stuck onto it like a crown, looking down at the creature below.
At the very center of the piece sits a gestating Fetus. It has its brain and eyes developed, coming along is its skeleton, and in the torso sits a flame.
In the background are four rings that coalesce with the Fetus that was mentioned before. Within the dark ring surrounding the Fetus are two phrases. The first reads, “apertura sit amor vivificate”. The second phrase reads “portum antem ducit autem”. There is also a gradient at the bottom which begins to turn into a “space” pattern above.