"vocem' is Latin for 'Voice' in case you were curious.
I've been trying to carve out more time for my own art these days. I've done so much illustration that I felt I needed a little more balance, allowing my own creativity time and an outlet. When given the ultimate freedom to paint whatever I want feels a bit overwhelming to me... where to start, where to settle? So, I have continued with my experiment of painting without planning. I prepped the board with a neutral grey and just started making random sweeping marks across the surface. Much how one might see shapes in clouds, I started to see things in the brush strokes and then proceeded to flesh them out. I liken it somewhat to those stream of consciousness writing exercises, perhaps if I do enough of these I will see some patterns. I had a lot of fun with this one!
Sort of! The description talks a bit about how I made it by creating random marks on the surface and then tried to find shapes in those marks and modify them until they turned into more concrete and recognizable things. I realize there's a lot of comments on this piece, but I do write about the meaning I got out of it. In short, (though I don't want to limit anyone's own interpretation, and my thoughts are just one subjective take on it) I see it having to do with my having abandoned my own artistic voice and the hope of returning to it.