From social media in bold and italics:

Quotation:

“.. I’m very eager for art writers to see a digital artwork I have just made. Having randomly mixed red and blue to make purple for a Pop Art piece [UN noise dash dot] on lined notepad paper yesterday.

It’s quite honestly a most unfathomable coincidence, beyond the planned construction of the six-grid collage itself from the photographed paper in my hand just now this afternoon.

After mixing purple and using the paint on the aforementioned Pop Art piece (yesterday) I viewed the sheet of paper, kind of liking the shapes I had pressed together, yet thinking none more to it..

.. saying to myself, ‘I shall try to make something of it. I would like to show people art can be made from seemingly nothing’. Yesterday I viewed photographic images of the [Indian] Gaur online.

I did this both some day before and after the purple mixing yesterday. Immediately after making the six-grid digital piece I realised inspired thought is somehow finding its way into my work.

The thing is I simply motioned my brush to mix paint, nothing more! When I pressed the wet leftover purple paint paper together at the middle, all I did was touch my finger at one non-painted side a number of times to cause a difference in the paint separation. Without any defined idea or concept.

I really cannot wait for art writers to see this work in its entirety, as I haven’t even photographed the upper-half of the pressed paper to-date. It’s absolutely ridiculous! I’m going to do so this afternoon or later.

It is a most random inspired work in my opinion.” – written by Matt The Unfathomable Artist, 1506hrs on 10th September 2024.

Here is the digital artwork image for the “Unfathomable Apocalypse Rider”:

Pictured immediately below is the actual physical random paintbrush pressing on the notepad:

Imagine the plain paper of the as yet “Unfathomable Apocalypse Rider” folded on top being pressed into the (Upper or bison) random acrylic mixed paint half of the notepad paper.

This is how the Upper bison half of the brushwork pressed together on the 9th September 2024 came to look as you see here:

[differences in notepad paper and paint colours due to indoor lighting conditions and the photographic editing between the two images]

Just take a close look at the beautiful striations in “Upper – Original”. Everything the product of complete random pressing from randomly mixed pseudo-purple paint on the 9th September 2024!

I didn’t even realise the randomness of “Upper” represented any visual form or idea until two days later.

– “How Matt could you not see a bison?! Or North America for that matter?!”

• ‘I was looking at the <random> paint you see in “Upper” upside down at first. When I turned the paper the other way around what would become “Unfathomable Apocalypse Rider – Original” became my initial artistic focus of interest. Primarily since I could quickly see a human-like form in ‘Rider’.
• Whereas “Upper” now upside down* as we see it in the image didn’t immediately bring anything to mind visually or in any objective form. Likely since I macro viewed the intricate striations. In fact I was so amazed about the ‘Rider’ for its randomness I even wrote exclusively about this the next day at 1506hrs on the 10th September. Not realising “Upper” would turn out to be as artistically unusual as “Unfathomable Apocalypse Rider – Original”!

*upside down at the top as regards the notepad paper. This is why I called it “Upper” at the time since I didn’t have any other specific title idea for this. In fact, I believe I mixed the (Upper) paint ‘upside down’ at the foot of the paper to how you see it above. Entire notepad image shown at the end of this article for reference [see # below]

Quotation from social media in bold and italics:

“If I told you the perceivable landmass you see is 100% completely random paint mixing would you believe me? The beautiful leaf-like striations occurred through my pressing this Upper half against the folded Notepad paper at the centre.

You can see where I held the paper as I made the pressing in both my hands.

After some days I began to envisage this random paintwork looked like North America. On the 12th September or thereabouts I noticed the unusual placement of ‘Florida’. On the 14th September (five days from its random production) I could then see the entire piece looked like a Bison! ‘Florida’ had therefore became its tail, completely by chance.

Extraordinary.” – personally written quotation published on 18th September 2024 to social media.

From “Upper – Original” I made the following digital artworks:

I titled this “Red Old Glory Colour North American Bison” today on 24th October 2024.

The red is 179, 25, 66 in the RGB scale.

I titled this “White Old Glory Colour North American Bison” today on 24th October 2024.

The white is 255, 255, 255 in the RGB scale.

I titled this “Blue Old Glory Colour North American Bison” today on 24th October 2024.

The blue is 10, 49, 97 in the RGB scale.

“Red, White & Blue Old Glory Colours North American Collage with Border” is the first collage I made, shown immediately above.

“White Star, Red & White Stripe, Triple Old Glory Colour North American Collage with Border” is the second collage I made (immediately above) to represent North American emblems of Stars, Stripes red and white with the complimenting Old Glory colours of Red, White and Blue.

Quotation on 16th September 2024 at 2150hrs “.. i would LOVE this artwork as four flags if i could. The three colour flags and then the collage with red and white stripe. if it was my choice i would make it into a cool weathervain [weathervane] piece entitled Four Winds of Direction. i would fasten each flag top and side so each flag would ripple nicely in the wind”.

I honestly felt I needed to dignify the whole random notepad work particularly as North America decided to present itself.

Randomly.

I would like to mention that despite the strange randomness of my work an art commentator did mention Jasper Johns to me afterwards. Jasper Johns famous for his intricate flag artworks.

The art commentator wrote “.. The Jasper Johns directive, ‘take an object, do something to it, do something else to it’. – anonymous, 19th September 2024, 1222hrs.

To this I replied:

“I had researched Jasper Johns work some weeks ago. This is why Upper is so very strange to me, randomly so ‘perfect’. I’m the only person who knows I just focused on mixing red and blue paint. Very odd.” – Matt The Unfathomable Artist, 1322hrs same day.

It should be noted I read, view or think about different visual artists most every day. Including the days and weeks prior to “Upper – Original” and “Unfathomable Apocalypse Rider”.

Let’s see some screenshots of newspaper articles whilst thinking of the ‘tail of Florida’ in my random brushwork of “Upper – Original”:

As you can see from ‘Map of Tropical Storm Helene’s path’ (immediately above) the ‘tail of Florida’ could be interpreted as a swirling hurricane. There is a striking similarity despite the fact my random brushwork and pressing is done on the 9th September 2024..

.. with pseudo-purple paint whilst working on “UN noise dash dot” [6th to 9th September 2024].

Here is a screenshot report detailing some of the devastating effects of Hurricane Helene:

Another highlight from the same report of exponentially destructive manmade climate effects:

Anyone appreciating my humanitarian efforts will know I have strongly campaigned for a reversal of manmade climate damages to the Earth, environment, wildlife and global air, land and sea pollution.

I feel my artworks in this article are the subconscious result of humanitarian efforts to appeal to world leaders to better manage Earth’s resources in a more harmonious way.

Thank you.

[#] For reference this is a photograph of the entire brushwork and pressing on the notepad paper as I first viewed same on the 9th September 2024: