Pow Martinez goes back to traditional, expressive painting after dabbling into music production. Using colors, recognizable figures, and painting manipulations in 1 Billion Years, he probes into the weird dimensions and strange feelings within the gaps of everyday reality. “Whether these belong to the domain of scientists, mystics, crackpots, artists, troublemakers, criminals, outcasts, idiots, is anybody’s guess. In and within these gaps is free-for-all,” says Martinez. “The more we probe, the more we fall inside the maze and loop of our own interpretations—sourced from a deep well of cultural references, arranged according to the patterns of our mind, filtered through our deeply rooted belief systems, and bound by genetic codes and hereditary traps [that are] impossible to override…We are prisoner and warden, both, of our preconceptions. And our fears set the ultimate borderline.” He turns to painting as a means of understanding what appears puzzling and confusing—filling in the gaps, “to enjoy the things we don’t enjoy, to go beyond the self and swim in the dark abstract world, to be frightened, to be fearful, to snort at the image of self, to ridicule and be ridiculed, to be afraid and unafraid of finding nothing.”
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