Torin Craig

Glorious Visions of our Psychedelic Socialist Future

Painting
2019
Oil on Panel
36 x 72
This body of work uses oil on panel as a means to explore the idea of the “transcendent experience” and its socio-political ramifications. I combine abstract intuitive painting with a process of digital collage and projection to achieve my results, with a strong focus on spontaneity, luminosity and direct expression in my material process. The abstract space inhabited by the figures is a translation of the ecstasy state (known alternatively as the divine, the mystic, love, the ‘flow’ state, the psychedelic, the orgasm), with the figures emerging representing the impact such a state inherently has on one’s cultural conditioning. These figures are collaged from various online images into a satire of the modern consumer-capitalist-colonial world. It is the direct experience of these pure states of life that results in one’s worldview changing – the social/cultural norms of our society are disrupted and questioned, and progress can be made.Individual Work Titles (Left to Right):Life’s Soft Deception.Pink Flamingo Nostalgia-Fuck.dose yr. politicians.

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Glorious Visions of our Psychedelic Socialist Future
Glorious Visions of our Psychedelic Socialist Future
Glorious Visions of our Psychedelic Socialist Future
Glorious Visions of our Psychedelic Socialist Future
Glorious Visions of our Psychedelic Socialist Future
Glorious Visions of our Psychedelic Socialist Future
Glorious Visions of our Psychedelic Socialist Future
Glorious Visions of our Psychedelic Socialist Future

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Torin Craig