Ade Kipades

From 2005 Kipades began exploring abstract expressionism, a painting style based upon the abstract philosophies of the European schools. He has found that by tuning in to subtle energetic sensations taking place within his body and expresses these through ‘automatic drawing’, a process initiated by early surrealist painters for accessing the subconscious mind, he is able to construct surreal abstractions that speak about the underlying energetic patterns that make up reality as we know it.

My intention for combining recycled materials into this artwork: Firstly to lower my carbon footprint by using packaging materials that contain some of the food in my everyday diet.

Secondly, for symbolic use, where the recycled material is placed in a way that it plays on the imagination of the viewer. For example the tin lids are stacked together to form a shape that hovers in the sky, much like an unidentified flying object would do, a fantasy shape symbolic of a yet to come revolutionary concept, one that will be part of a greater solution for the preservation and sustainability of our natural kingdom on Earth.

And the food packaging cut out that acts as an architectural structure symbolic of knowledge and identification, we have as a species, with our technology, its design and its integration with natural and idyllic beauty.