My Featured Painting - Colony

My painting Colony depicted a roughly sketched tight grid, in which several skeletal ants nervously roam around these low barriers. The whole painting was awash in a cold and almost sinister bluish green, and the insects were barely discernible at the first glance, as they seemed to have merged with the thin grids underneath their wiry bodies. The painting was a bit starling as it presented the ants in close-up, and they looked rather monstrous in their enormities.

 
Colony
Oil on Canvas
22" x 28"
Completed in 2011

This painting is currently in a Group exhibition Color Speaks (Sep. 23, 2017 - Jan. 20, 2018), in the vibrant art district of Downtown Berkeley.

Originally posted on matthewfelixsun.com

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Oil Painting "Colony" Completed

Continuing my fascination with patterns, I have worked on another painting predominated by interwoven patterns and actors in this intricate setting - ants.

They occupy a flattened space, waving their legs left and right, with just enough hints of menace.  They don't really mean to be threatening.  Rather, they occupy their space in the matter-of-fact way, doing about their own businesses, which to humans, are often meaningless and pointless.

Yet, zooming away from our own preoccupied daily routine, what differences are there between human species and an ant colony?