For the Love of Tradition

The new years on it's way and I thought I'd pop in and post a lil of what I'm getting up to. Here's a final sketch of a painting I'm preparing for another group exhibition next month.

It will only be a small piece 12" x 14.5". A mix of realistic and flat 2D surfaces...
Also forgot to draw a carved inscription on the table top 'Andy Was Here',..
 Andy being the shortened version of Andrew or Andreas
(check out their root meanings and you'll see where I'm headed.. :))

I'm still mulling over the title, but so far it's called 'For the Love of Tradition' (kind of because I'm trying to tie it in to a love theme for a friends exhibition.. tho the painting would be kind of an oxymoron to the theme,.. lol. Anyways I'll try to think of a more fitting title). It's a poke at society's blind love affair with centuries old and superficially axiomatic traditions or belief systems. Belief systems that perpetuates circumstances that concentrate 85% of the world's wealth to only the top 10%, half to the top 2%! These are stats from way back in 2006 however, the divide of inequality is ever widening. Traditional belief systems that are still pervasive and held on to because of fear and ignorance. The tradition of running after the proverbial carrot in the backward monetary system we call the rat race,... The emphasis on self-assertive values (competition, expansion, domination) that are still preserved because of the perceived upper-hand gained.

Anyways I could go on but I hadn't really planned on writing about it here... just yet, so forgive me if I haven't been as eloquent as I should be....

Should post the details of the exhibition by the end of the month or in February...!

Reference :- turkey carcass by clang boom steam (Flickr)
- weathered wood by m.gifford (Flickr)
Both were under the Creative Commons (for commercial use, adaptation, modification or to be built upon).

Thanks for visiting! :)

 (UPDATE : decided the title would be ' Instinct ?...' which articulates the question of what modern society takes for granted as 'instinctual behaviour' and the more pervasive 'survival of the fittest' Ayn Rand indoctrination of modern times. Not sure if it's enough to articulate other aspects of the painting though)