Fog Crystals

This painting, Fog Crystals, was a struggle of a painting that was re-painted at least ten times. What the hell are they anyway, except something struggling in my imagination? That said, the absurd fictional idea was nevertheless valid in my artist’s mind.

In the end, I love the painterly result which is a set of fifteen stripes with alternating rich, dense grey and yellow color fields. Textured with white—very messy and thick and layered. I introduce sunlight into my fog which liberates the painting from its previous morose versions of clichéd grey fog. This liberated me as well from endless revisions.

At this point, I realized my paintings embrace a sort of conversation between order and chaos. A quiet duel that pervades my exploration of nature—and, dare I say—of human nature as well. 

–STELIOS author of The Oculus