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NRUS.IO's artworks explore shadows - what people don't show to their rational external world.

// Engineer & artist documenting on creative processes.

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27/11/2022

Mountains 🏔️ I completely improvised and I was actually painting a face lol, then I saw opportunity in the random shapes to actually have some mountains there.

At first I thought it may be a bit of a cliché subject, but I then was curious to see how that subject that we see often would end up looking in my style.

And it’s like this

Swipe for after - before - before 🔒🔓

Ok bye need to take a shower 🎨🪣🪣

19/11/2022

Tonight’s

02/10/2022

Sundays 🌃 reading some more of one of my favourite contemporary philosophers and art critic ( Luis Sagasti, I recommend ) and scrabbling away.

I initially wanted to draw this digitally this WE but my eyes are tired of looking at screens ( being a software engineer this means you spend vast majority of your time staring at them).

01/10/2022

One last tonight 💅🏼Urban Jungle 🌇

01/10/2022

Today’s abstract ( Eye of the storm 👁 )

01/10/2022

Painted this abstract today 👁 Eye of the storm

25/06/2022

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27/02/2022

Thinking of those whose lives are in danger as I’m writing this. Thinking of those who lost their home and live in fear.

19/02/2022

Naiad 🪐 https://nrus.io/

19/02/2022

🌌 untitled

19/02/2022

Eye of the storm 🪐

31/07/2021

Where my mind spends some time 🪐

[ another Naiad on that same previous alien planet where living things attract the light 🕯️]

25/07/2021

"something in the water" - Same context as previous artwork - alien planet, living things attract the light, and the idea here is that there's a living thing in the water too, which is supposed to be rare. Hence her surprised gesture & cautious facial expression.

I improvised this one, although I have been I influenced lately by looking at artworks of lakes & aquatic alien landscapes.

And also I have been looking at the novel I had written in French years ago, to see if I had the level to translate it to English ( not yet ) : and the scenery I had been reading could look quite similar to this if it had to be drawn.

10/07/2021

⚫ Alma

10/07/2021

⚫ "Alma" . Aright, stay with me - I usually understand the narration of the drawing as I make it, and when I find a meaning, I continue and end the drawing along that storyline.

At the start it was meant to be a Naiade ( in Greek mythology, the naiads are a type of female spirit, or nymph, presiding over fountains, wells, springs, streams, brooks and other bodies of fresh water.)

But I picture this actually taking place in a cave of an alien planet, where there is no one else but one person, which soul attracts the light.

Also hence the name Alma , meaning a "soul" in Latin (it still means soul in Italian - and Spanish.)

There are 2 accents : on the woman itself, and the light. It is meant to point both to that energy & beauty that inhabits the woman (soul), and the light which follows her ( soul) around

Not sure what this one evokes for you, for me it's the above 🖤🙃

Hugs

07/07/2021

⚫ "The end of history" ⚫ I had studied ancient civilisations trying to understand what happened to them, why they died, how they could decline. The Pax Romana lasted for over 200 years and it reminded me how invicible, eternal we think we are - but all civilisations come to their end. It would be foolish to think we're "the end of history" - a reference to political scientist Fukuyama.

Inspiration taken from Olivier Ler Marinkoski

02/07/2021

⚫ I haven't yet decided of a title - I've improvised this artwork around midnight yesterday, it was spontaneous.

28/06/2021

⚫ In honour of one of my favourite artists - Botticelli. I have revisited the "Three Graces", that he painted in the 1470s, himself taking inspiration on ancient greek civilisation's cultural inheritance.

I have spent some time on these - a few evenings - as it is quite an intimating artist to paint after. I'd like to think that if he traveled forward in time and saw this, he would like it ( or would not mind it).

In general, I love to revisit the masterpieces of my favourite artists of the past, because it makes me wonder about how their lives were, what were they thinking when they made these... and I find it beautiful the idea that humanity has artists working on similar emotional themes across centuries and millenniums. It creates a connection bending space and time.

What is your favourite, #1 or #2 ?

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28/06/2021

"We are stardust" ⚫

Made on Sunday night. Couldn't sleep

24/06/2021

⚫ Héphaïstos. "It isn't easy being a brilliant inventor, always alone. Always misunderstood. Easy to turn bitter, make horrible mistakes. People are more difficult to work with than machines.
And when you break a person, he can't be fixed."

The Lost Hero - Rick Riordan [ on Héphaïstos ]

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23/06/2021

⚫ Something I made with a 3D software a while ago. I titled it "pool under the stars" and it was inspired by this poem, of unknown author :

"
No, the stars never mapped out a path for me to follow, never planned my downfalls, my triumphs.

I rule the stars, not the other way around. I take their dust and inject it in my veins. I breathe in their light as

I live.
I live,
I live.

"

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When I was doing this artwork, I was visualising how crazy it is that we are in this vast beautiful yet hostile universe, all by ourselves, and we can't fathom anything that's surrounding

- but we find a way to make our time worthwhile and we wonder, enjoying while it lasts.

The pool was meant to be metaphor for that joy, with someone swimming in it questioning and pointing their finger at a star.

I wanted the people to be barely visible in order to make us feel the scale, the hostility and the darkness all around, while the sparks point as to how, although hostile, our cosmos is truly mesmerising and contains so much energy and beauty.

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22/06/2021

⚫ Hera. She was known to be jealous and vengeful. She pursued and tortured mistresses of Zeus - who hung her in the sky by golden chains after she attempted to overthrow him.

Some of her powers include superhuman strength, eternal youth, the ability to bless and curse.

👁️ When I drew her, I imagined her standing in a cold, calm rage, playing on contrast with flames.

In deep thoughts, mediating on a curse to be sent toward her enemy.

🌬️ From this calm demeanor, I wanted to draw the accent on her cold eyes, which are wide opened, staring in the fire - both a metaphor of the raging fire of her inner torments, and of the dangerous game she played defying Zeus.

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