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Garden of Overthought

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Sometimes really wonderful things are growing around you but youre not entirely sure what they are. You can either be impulsive, go with your heart and embrace them - or you can be a static overthinking stupid baby tree (see above), thinking too much about everything and totally wreck something before it has properly begun to grow, and be left feeling incomplete.

Eww, feelings.

Done to a soundtrack of The Panics' "Dont Fight It" - the title is written in there somewhere :D

This was started about two months ago and things have changed since then, so it's pretty irrelevant now... But it brings it back whenever I look at it, and I only recently had the motivation to cut him out, create a background and stick him on it.

It's a bit more overtly personal than most of my other stuff, hence the old cliched love hearts ;) Guess I wanted to show a bit more as opposed to hiding completely behind abstraction this time. Man those dots on the top and side took forever..

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:star::star::star::star::star-half: Overall
:star::star::star::star::star-half: Vision
:star::star::star::star::star: Originality
:star::star::star::star::star: Technique
:star::star::star::star::star-half: Impact

'Garden of Overthought' is an infusion of pattern, denoting, as the title suggests, 'over-thought'. The correlation between the artist’s statement and the art work is profound - even without having read what the context of the work was, the piece felt claustrophobic and busy which was effective in portraying this idea of 'analysis suffocates beauty', against the tranquil back drop of a garden. This is a popular concept, but never have I seen it materialized so creatively. The detail of this work is both beautiful and crippling. If you haven't checked out Simanion's gallery, do yourself a favor and get ready for a simulation of a religious experience.