Original artwork description:

This blue-on-white abstract sculpture is called "The desire to be in control #7" and is made on 36"x 36"x 1.5" canvas. It was exhibited at The Nave Museum in Victoria, Texas.
What is this artwork about?
We all have our limitations.
Each of us. You name it.
We live in a mortal (healthy?) human body, a random combination of our ancestors' genes. We happened to be born in a specific country at a particular time; our race, ethnicity, and cultural background also happened to us. We can also not control thinking; it happens to us as digestion does.
Our reality is beyond our knowledge to a greater extent.
We feel it.
We are simple, imperfect, and impermanent, and we know it.
We all have the desire to be in control. We know we can control barely anything, but we still try to. The blue color conveys my feelings about that.
Nevertheless, because of all this, we all feel our completeness and are infinitely beautiful in our fragility and mortality.
We are in this together.
The spiky sculptured elements represent this attempt to control and show how deeply rooted we are in our background. The sculptured elements are arranged in a circle to show our limitations and to convey the feeling of completeness.

Materials used:

Clay, acrylic paint, varnish

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