Original Art: Pen & Ink: Title: Stuck in the Middle with You by South African Artist Ras Steyn (MFA)

Original Art: Pen & Ink: Title: Stuck in the Middle with You

by South African Artist Ras Steyn (MFA)

Dimensions: 210MM by 297MM

1X Available with Signed Certificate of Authenticity

Over the last few years my obsession with Posthumanism, Monstrosity and Post-Surrealism has shifted towards diagnosing the artistic output of unquiet minds greatly. My understanding of Surrealism and its emphasis on identity multiplication has steadily developed into an ever-expanding concern for identity loss or theft, emptiness, psychological fracturing, inertia and neurosis/psychosis. It has become my obsession to capture that which is ephemeral and on the brink of surrendering to extreme disorder. I am a lateral Think Tank for the chaotic creativity that swirls and imprints itself amongst our destabilising environment. Common social imagery is almost always subjected to a surrealist void or abstract space. 

My aim is to analyse, interpret and react to unpredictable and somewhat irrational systems that shape us, haunt us; and leave us paralysed with its sublime psychic overtones.  As a poet and visual artist I tend to live a more realistic life inside my head, while the empirical world around me seems somewhat vague and questionable. The physical (rational) world can be a very daunting place. Reality is not a very sound place for it is riddled with simulation, monsters parading in beautiful skin, perfect bodies concealing protean identities and a plethora of other unsettling errors. My art aims to liberate the anomalous - and free errors from the confined spaces of a constrictive reality.
The production of art is my coping mechanism. But most importantly, my artistic output is a very personal invitation to everyone who is addicted to the 'metamorphic' and symbolic power of the visual arts.

Writing surreal fiction based on my life experiences assists with my will to live.

Photography keeps my memory vivid and my eyes curious.

 Moreover, I have always been fascinated by the deliberate absence of highly probable subject matter in allegedly contentious abject, surreal or macabre dream-based imagery. I try to generate as many abstracted or contorted images as possible to keep my mind open to lateral and subversive ideas. My mental state serves as the paradigm or platform on which to build unique and unusual connections such as mutable sculpture, digital data diagrams, protean sketches on abstract renderings, and an array of digital fine art prints.