APRIL 15TH, 2022
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Robin Weatherall also goes by the name "the florist." We all need our dose of flowers; whether tangible or fungible or intangible and non-fungible, they are still beneficial for the soul.
The beauty entrances me by looking at the collection, "Vibrancy Paintings - Chromatic flower artwork," the beauty entrances me. Looking at Opalescent Fancy, I see the flower. I also see much more. I see creation, destruction, the universe, the spectrum of emotions, and almost all the colours.
On the upper middle-left quadrant of Opalescent Fancy, I see a white horse galloping and becoming pink on the journey toward becoming a unicorn. I can't pinpoint the emotion that this digital painting invokes in me, but it has something to do with a journey. Many emotions are invoked in me as I sit here in awe of this digital painting. It looks almost like a source of illumination or something over-saturated on the top left. I can't decide if everything comes from this ball of whiteness or if everything is going towards it. There is a lot of emotion in this piece, and something I noticed just now various textures.
On the bottom part of the digital painting, I realize that the texture there reminds me of textures one might find in nature, maybe in the sky, like in clouds, or when the ocean hits the shore, like seafoam.
When I focus on the texture on the bottom left, I see lots of neon bubbles and what I think are hula-hoops. If I focus only on this part of the digital painting, I am instantly reminded of Convergence by Jackson Pollock.
In the middle of this piece, there seems to be a waterfall and a waiting pool, a massive tree like the Tree of Life, Tree of Knowledge, or even the Mother Tree from James Cameron's Avatar. Or even Yggdrasil, in Norse Mythology, a central and sacred tree, The World Tree, where the nine realms exist. One can glean so much information from this digital painting.
I see the whole cosmos in the middle of it. The colours represent the cosmos' differences and unify them through shape, form, and brush strokes. After writing this, I looked at the description of the work and was super happy to find that it said: "This represents the pure cosmic color and warm, vibrant positivity."
And when I change my perspective and rotate it 90 degrees counter-clockwise, I see an eyeball, a cosmic one; instantly, this flower turns into a giants' eye looking back at me.
When I shift my focus to other pieces of art in the collection of the florist, I realize how appropriate it is that the artist minted this collection on Kalamint with their leaf logo.
Looking at Cryptic Rose in the same collection, the face in the middle of this piece captivates me, and we are suddenly staring at each other. As I slowly zoom out with my eyes, I notice the more significant and smaller heads coming out of it.
I see a galaxy forming with stars on the top of this digital painting. There are many layers to this, both in the software it was made and in the roses' petals. Each petal has different layers to how the florist experiences life or shapes his experiences. Like events in the ordinary world, the fast and hard division between the petals sometimes exists and sometimes doesn't— like inhaling and exhaling. I love how some of the borders exist, and some of them don't or look washed out.
The green and blue parts make me feel infinite, like looking into an ocean or even through the looking glass. The four lines going upwards remind me of a cat's whiskers.
The amount of emotion he can pack into a single rose is awe-inspiring. Every different piece of these digital paintings tells a different story. Like eternity in a grain of sand or the cosmos in a flower petal.
