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Published: 2004-07-23 19:52:56 +0000 UTC; Views: 9467; Favourites: 181; Downloads: 2185
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This work was started shortly after my Organic Chem final. In Organic we study alot of drugs and since it's the hardest class you can possibly ever take at any undergrad level, I drank alot of coffee. Hence, throught that experience, this painting came about. By the way, all the molecules here are common and not-so common stimulants. By the way, I got a -B. Ha HA!There is alot of stuff here that I really don't feel like getting into right now. Besides, I'd like to know what you, the viewer, thinks about some of the details and how those details, along with the color and whatnot make you feel. Please feel free to dissect my work.
I'm experimenting right now with my art and its thematic effectiveness. I want the viewer to look at a piece and feel a certain way. Then I want to make their eyes focus on certain details in order for them to further grasp the theme that I'd further enforced by the feeling they get when they first look at it.
What do you think?
QUICK FACTS ABOUT PIECE:
1. The mouth on the top left is modeled from the artist.
2. There is the outline of a 'Buddha' sitting on a disapearing pill bottle in the center (wearing a saffron robe).
3. There are a total of two cups of coffee in the work.
4. The molecule next to the cigarrette is nicoteine.
5. The molecule that is in the 'eye' of the nitrogen atom (red ball -- pill as eye) is cocaine.
6. The pink pills are Ritalin, the orange and red pills are Adderall, potent stimulants used to treat ADHD*.
7. The black balls are carbon atoms (Notice the "C" on the ball on the upper right).
8. The red balls are nitrogen atoms.
9. The blue balls are oxygen atoms.
10. Carbon has only four bonds and is is the substance life is made out of (our DNA is a helix chain of carbons atoms).
11. The work was done in an acrylic medium, which is a synthetic or chemically altered medium.
12. IUPAC nomenclature as well as ball and stick modeling were very important in working with this piece.
* it is interesting that they use powerful stimulants to treat a 'hyper activity' disorder.
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Comments: 98
you are fantastic. i love chemistry. i love the composition of things. just today i was singing the elements song by tom lehrer because i've been too long out of my chemistry class. amazing amazing work.
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You have good interesting gallery. You are good artist!
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This is pretty damn cool. I like all the elements (artistic and molecular) you added into one piece, especially after reading about the thought you put into this. The colors work well together, and the molecules in the way that they're depicted immediately reminded me of Miro's work. Cool stuff!
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Superbly detailed and colored. I love the expressions and forms. Wonderfully bizarre and intense. Dazzling style.
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"it is interesting that they use powerful stimulants to treat a 'hyper activity' disorder."
also know as paradoxal effect. but actually, it's not so paradoxal. a adhd brain does not work as it should work, so stimulants make it work in a certain way that make the person slow down. focus. i guess the frontal lobe is less active and it causes hyperactivty in the person, so if you make this become more active..
ritalin or adderall.. best things ever to mostly adhds. to concentrate is a gift, not to get anxious is great. but not for recreation use as many brainless teenagers do.
some drugs are necessary, but some ppl use it in a bad way.
bad bad english, no donuts for me.
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yeah, what actually happens is norepinephrine doesn't quite work deep into the hippocampal region, which regulates the activity of the whole frontal lobe system - hence the inability to focus. Also, this changes the reuptake potentials involved in seratonin synthesis and some free ranging dopa compounds.
Yeah, I think stimulants are wonderful, amazing substances. I wish I had some right now.
Also, they precribe LSD (a halucinogen) to schizophrenics (whom already halucinate).
I also did research under an organic chemist at Moffit Cancer Center, here in Tampa, who was usinging nitrile carcinogens to fight cancer cells. Which, is, of course, paradoxical.
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first.. my english SUCKS.
and.. what other medication would be more efficient? they're trying to replace ritalin for other medicines non-stimulants for a while, but they dont work as good as ritalin (or it wouldn't be the first option for psychiatr-- argh, i wont google to check the spelling-ts).
"Yeah, I think stimulants are wonderful, amazing substances. I wish I had some right now" -- that made you look quite stupid now. do you have adhd/add? do you know what's like quitting school cause you CANT pay attention on anything, you cant finish a thing? i guess no. i dont care if there's a bunch of idiots using it for fun, its a MEDICATION. if you have so many problems with ritalin, go discuss with a psychiaaaa-again-ts about it.
i didnt know it neither about the schizophenia thing, neither about cancer. for the first, i guess they use antipsichotics as first choice, like my mom. but IF it works someday.. would you recriminate the cancer cure?
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nice work. i love the energy and movement. its crazy how stuff can soak into one's brain and come out on a canvas
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Yeah, that's how most of my work comes to be. It sits and ferments for a while in my head. Then I have a kinda intellectual direhea for a while. It can get a little messy at times. The painting, of course...
of course.
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there is def some mad skill shere, i felt like that painting a tiny bit while revising for my sciences,mad cool peice
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yeah, you gotta get the angst of classes out somehow. I work mine out on canvas, paper and in the boxing gym.
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well it is nice to see you produce art again, and a daily deviation, lus such a science orientated one
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Thanks. I have some spare time now, so I figured I'd catch up on some of my art.
I'm actually thinking of a scientific/medical/interpretive piece titled, "Synesthesia". Synesthesia is a brain phenomena only found in like 2% of the population in which people will see objects and colors to shapes and certain numbers and patterns of numbers as shapes so forth. Alot of color and shapes in that one. Stained-glass, light and nmbers.
I'm fascinated by neurology and states of consiousness, so alot of my work should be centered around that general theme. That's the plan anyway.
I'm not sure if that's the right direction though...
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you must explore befor eyou find the right path
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wow that's...really good.
Despite everything though, I would still have to say chemistry is 5 times more painful and infuriating then your picture depcited it. Still...it's pretty good 
Lol, yes it may be sad, but science was never my strong point-everything except biology must die
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Very interesting image.. much going on. Even though the colors are bright and vivid, the feeling I get from this picture is that of frustration, or stress, at the mounting pressure, aside from the obvious anger at something. This something, in this case, being the final.
What it feels to me, anyway. The painting itself is beautiful, and very abstract. The color choice works great, as it is easy and inviting to the eyes. The composition is also interesting in that it seems that everything floats about aimlessly, yet seems to have purpose for being where it is at the same time.
Overall great work... keep it up.
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Dude! You've must have been trumped up on some kind of stress or high after that class. But I love abstraction, and I think this fits how you were feeling perfectly. I'm not that much of a painter, but I've messed with it a few times in my high school senior art class. Though I think prismas are more my thing. Hope to see some more cool stuff from you. Me going to watch you.
And yes I think you have achieved what you want other people to see in your work. Good Job!
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I'm, um, way too tired to give a big long critique. Maybe I should drink more coffee. 
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chemically attractive. like a digital drug, maybe even pheramonal. Very interesting.
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Astounding. What stimulants have you included? Caffiene, I presume, and...?
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it's cool, there's so much to look at.
i look at this, and think i've found a vanishing point from which everything is coming, but then i notice all these other chaotic elements not adhering to certain other features in the picture.
it's all very original and interesting.
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I love this. I'm a science student too, and I'm currently taking Organic Chemistry. XD I love the colors and the absurdity of this painting, it's really awesome.
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wow, tons of stimulants in this photo, so you say you just drank coffee?
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i have stupid aspirations into organic chemistry, so this piece is really interesting.. i'm jealous of the fact that you get to take a class totally based upon organic chemistry, and not some flip-flopping chemistry class where the concepts are barely introduced. from my knowledge, all i see in there is a bunch of 'methylphenethylamines' - amphetamine. apart from that, this piece is just a wonderful combination of aesthetics and science, i like the whole idea of the image. instant favorite!
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Super bice piece of work..
It has so many colors wich makes the pice look joyful, at the same time we could see these faces with their teeth out like mad... It's a great mix of ideas aan expressions.
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I love all the little details in this. I like the buddha on the pill bottle, and how he has the little chemical chain ball/sticks incorperated into him. like it's saying the pills are your one chance for relaxation and calm, but oh no they're disappearing and only remind you of more chemistry. And I like the cocaine sugar pouring out of the coffee's nose into the mug. nice touch.
the overall image definitely provokes the feeling of anxiousness and urgency and "ineedtostayawake" that comes with cramming for a test or something similar.
very effective. definitely.
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This is just absolutely amazing, I love all the details and abstractness of this. Simply outstanding!.
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this picture is awesome! you did a great job...i look at this picture for 5 minutes...so many details...the colours are wonderful 
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This makes me feel... like I've had too much coffee. If organic chemistry produces a feeling like this piece is giving me, I'm not so sure about taking it
I think once I got over my initial "Ooh! Wazzat? Molecules!" grazing of this picture, the thing that caught my attention is the weird figure with the glowing dots inside of it. He looks like he's being sucked into the big brown guy, who looks to me like... well... personified coffee. Like the coffee -> caffine -> need to be awake is sucking him in. All the stimulants around seem to reinforce the theme of forcing one's self to be awake, as most of modern US society does. And in the process, things are going a little crazy. The coffee mug-looking fellow seems to embody somebody whose gone over the brink and cracked, and is losing a part of themselves to the mad rush to get things done and be constantly on. And the red guy popping out of him is 'screwed up' (har-har) for the same reasons. That little bit of sugar (maybe relaxation?) is dripping out of the coffee guy's nose, which to me symbolizes the fun and goodness draining out of life. And there's not much sugar for such a big, black, bottomless cup of coffee
...I'm not good at analyzing art XD So forgive my oddness. And I'm sure you've heard this before, but I don't usually comment on Daily Deviations. This picture just sort of jumped out at me
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No, great comment. Thanks. Your analysis is quite good. Except, the sugar turning into cocaine was supposed to say how we all indulge in stimulants to one degree or another. That is, even though some stimulants are socially acceptable, coffee, sugar, cigarettes, ephedra, and the like, they are still stimulants, just like crack, cocaine, Adderall, Ritalin, and Amphetamines. Where do we draw the line?
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This kinda reminds me of like.. what a modern day painting from Salvador Dali would be. It's crazy, but there is so much to look at. You really have to stare at different spots for a while to take it all in. And I love paintings like that. I think you should take even harder classes if it makes you come up with something like that.
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amazing, thats what i think mate!!! i wont the print!!!
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My kind congratulations on Your Daily Deviation 
Best wishes.
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