Donnie Darko "Fear / Love Spectrum" Premium Print

"Okay. But you're not listening to me. There are other things that need to be taken into account here, like the whole spectrum of human emotion. You can't just lump everything into these two categories and then just deny everything else." -Donnie Darko

This print was created from a "Donnie Darko" painting I made. At the time, I created a few contrasting "dark art" pieces. All black and white from cult classics such as "Fight Club" (Tyler Durden), "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" (Hunter S. Thompson), "The Dark Knight" (Batman) and "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" (Willy Wonka).

Starting out, I never planned on selling any of them. They we're deeply personal to me at the time. Yet, due to my lack of living/creating space and my continued need to constantly create, here I am. So to reconcile giving up those special pieces, I photographed them and transformed them into digital prints.

Throughout this process, I combine old-school, traditional art styles and techniques (e.g. paint and canvas) with new-school, experimental concepts and technology (e.g. digital photography and filtering). The contrast between the art itself, in addition to the disparate creation process, emulates the inherent duality expressed in reality.