The Wax Onion- Diediker Art Collaborative

Hey Righteous Art lovers I'm doing a Collaborative Art Project and I need your participation! No joke...come play...the 4 minute video explains the game.

Wax Onion Video

To me it seems as though the art pendulum over time has slowly swung from realism to abstraction, accelerating greatly in the last two centuries. Perhaps we can push the pendulum back the other way by starting with a complete chance driven abstraction and then extract imagery. I intend to use the Wax Onion as a vehicle to do just that. The Wax Onion is a Facebook group I created which allows the global public to suggest the imagery that they see. For participants it might be like looking at clouds and eventually seeing Osama Bin Laden riding a mechanical Bull wearing a feather boa while blowing bubbles. To me it’s so interesting that how when asked, “what do you see” people make reference to things that are representative of our here and now. And in a way these pieces are collective journals of humanity, as it exists today. People can only see what they know. I have a great affection for the abundant and inspiring transitions in nature. The medium of Encaustic not only allows me to mimic the long-term build up and erosions found in nature on much more accelerated basis but the very medium itself (bees-wax) is a testament to her evolutionary genius. These natural abstractions are the unfinished works that I place on The Wax Onion and initiate a global survey asking, “What do you see”. I then finish the paintings based on the combined results of that survey. I believe strongly that and artists environment should affect their work. Reference to their place and time should be reflected in the work. If not perhaps you are only painting decorations. The Wax Onion Collaborative allows for global collective thought on a single work, which hasn’t been logistically available until the advent of online communities. With the aid of the Internet and Facebook I can gather perspective on imagery from all corners of the globe and incorporate it in the studio. I’m interested idea of these works hanging on a wall 500 years from now with all comments and suggestions from The Wax Onion sealed on the back of each piece. Even though we are gone the evidence of this collaboration exists within the finished work and stands as a time capsule as well as symbolic of our communication evolution as human beings. I invite any Facebook Members interested in participating in this collaborative to visit “The Wax Onion” on Facebook. What do You see?