Acrylic on Unstretched Canvas
35.5 x 31.5 in (90.17 x 80 cm)
Do You Really Love Me? reflects procrastination, distraction, and insecurity. Often, I avoid making art by turning to reading, reality television, hookups, or dancing. Here, the Lockadoodle asks the figure, “Do you really love me?” The doodle questions whether these distractions are worth abandoning artistic growth. It knows that if the artist devoted more attention to his craft, he would continue to evolve creatively and personally. The work also contains a second meaning: I become the doodle, while the figure represents a lover. In this interpretation, the same question emerges from insecurity within a relationship. While waiting for an answer, the figure reads a book about love, attempting to understand it intellectually, unaware that true understanding may only come once distractions are removed.
Artwork is signed on bottom right corner.
Acrylic on Unstretched Canvas
35.5 x 31.5 in (90.17 x 80 cm)
Do You Really Love Me? reflects procrastination, distraction, and insecurity. Often, I avoid making art by turning to reading, reality television, hookups, or dancing. Here, the Lockadoodle asks the figure, “Do you really love me?” The doodle questions whether these distractions are worth abandoning artistic growth. It knows that if the artist devoted more attention to his craft, he would continue to evolve creatively and personally. The work also contains a second meaning: I become the doodle, while the figure represents a lover. In this interpretation, the same question emerges from insecurity within a relationship. While waiting for an answer, the figure reads a book about love, attempting to understand it intellectually, unaware that true understanding may only come once distractions are removed.
Artwork is signed on bottom right corner.