Erik

"Erik"

40x50cm

Acrylic on canvas

Original artwork

Nike Adawi

2024.

To enable the feeling of drawing when you were a child, you have to let go of all the rules, norms, and thoughts we have about our art. We must create based on the fact that there is no right or wrong. A child creates what they consider to be correct. And then let the people around them preceive what they think the child wants to portray. This is the most difficult art form to recreate in adulthood. So I decided to test a new technique where I paint with my left hand as all the rules, techniques, and thoughts inside me cannot control what the hand paints. I try to create an image I have in my head but since I don't have the same control in both hands I consider my control ability in my left hand, to be the same as I had in my right hand when I was a 6-year-old.