Hey I'm Andra Semesta from Indonesia and this blog is intended to be both a portfolio and your usual internet self-expression. I like to draw 'subconcious-drawn mandalas' (Google it if you're not sure what I'm talking about haha) and in this particular set I used music albums and painted what I felt when listening to them. Photographs of the paintings and some of the extra pics are thanks to my friend BIMO, a jolly good Radiohead fan. thanks for coming!! :D
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7. Bright Eyes’ I’m wide awake it’s morning
First day of my life was the first Bright Eyes song I’ve heard (or realized I’ve heard) back in 2005 (yes quite new in the Conor game for a big fan haha), which made this album matter. ‘I’m wide awake it’s morning’ has this calm grandeur about it, and some kind of bright melancholy. I tried painting ‘Digital Ash in a digital urn’ (a darker and more electronic Bright Eyes album released in the same year) first and I failed. I guess the beautiful folkiness in this album is what REALLY made me fall in love with Bright Eyes in the first place : ) I hope my love is there in the painting.
(oil on 80cm round canvas)