Symmetrical Paintings
by Paranoid Loid
2022 Exhibition
When the 2020 Coronavirus lock downs and quarantine began Loid purchased the iPad Pro, Apple Pencil and the painting app ProCreate. With those tools he developed a new form of art.
When the 2020 Coronavirus lock downs and quarantine began Loid purchased the iPad Pro, Apple Pencil and the painting app ProCreate. With those tools he developed a new form of art.
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After a month of frustration at being unable to draw or paint anything that he liked, Loid found ProCreate's radial symmetry guide. The symmetry guide is a tool that is present in every painting and drawing program that has ever existed. That is when he stopped TRYING to make art and instead began to slowly and deliberately PULL infinitely random abstract art into this world from some other dimension where it seemed to have already existed. He had done this 20 years earlier while living in Rome, Italy with the painting program Corel Draw where he created about 10 paintings that his oldest friend told him looked like mandalas.
After a month of frustration at being unable to draw or paint anything that he liked, Loid found ProCreate's radial symmetry guide. The symmetry guide is a tool that is present in every painting and drawing program that has ever existed. That is when he stopped TRYING to make art and instead began to slowly and deliberately PULL infinitely random abstract art into this world from some other dimension where it seemed to have already existed. He had done this 20 years earlier while living in Rome, Italy with the painting program Corel Draw where he created about 10 paintings that his oldest friend told him looked like mandalas.
The words Symmetrical Painting seemed to describe this new form of art better than the word mandala. Mandalas are always circular, much more repetitive and evoke prejudged design expectations. All paintings on this website began as random scribbles made while in a trance like state trying to deal with a period in modern history that at times felt like the end of the world.
The words Symmetrical Painting seemed to describe this new form of art better than the word mandala. Mandalas are always circular, much more repetitive and evoke prejudged design expectations. All paintings on this website began as random scribbles made while in a trance like state trying to deal with a period in modern history that at times felt like the end of the world.
These paintings are some of Loid's favorites out of over one thousand that he created throughout the unforgettable years of the Coronavirus.
These paintings are some of Loid's favorites out of over one thousand that he created throughout the unforgettable years of the Coronavirus.
Radial Symmetry
Radial Symmetry
iPad Pro + Apple Pencil + ProCreate
Phoenix, ArizonaBeginning of Quarantine 2020 - PresentiPad Pro + Apple Pencil + ProCreate
The Eschaton
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December 2022
Fabergé Egg from Mars
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Warcraft
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January 2021
The Gate
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September 2021
The Cotton Candy Dimensional Portal
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Xibalba
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The Exchange
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The Unbreakable Heart
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Reaction
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Cruelty Forgiven Not Forgotten
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Simulated Reality
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Linguistic Intentionality
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Summer 2020
The Lorum Ipsum Conspiracy
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December 2022
Inside OUT
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Summer 2020
KRULL
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December 2022
The 4 Flux Capacitor
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Summer 2020
The Triggering Factor
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November 2022
A Soft Star Cloud
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Fall 2020
Golden Coat of Arms for the Rulers of Dimension C-420
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Wooden Coat of Arms for the Rulers of Dimension C-101
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Summer 2020
The Brood
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January 2021
It's All Coming Together
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Fall 2020
Entanglement
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June 2021
Non-locality
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June 2021
Ecstasy Observed
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Quantum Psychedelic Projection of the Nucleus of an Atom
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Summer 2021
Infiltrated
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Melotron
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Energizing
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Keeping It Together
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Everlasting Gobstopper
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Flames of Honey
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Summer 2020
Psychedelic Psychotherapy
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Everything and More
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Fall 2020
Separating the Wheat from the Chaff
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Summer 2021
That's How They Do It
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January 2021
The Trouble with Tribbles
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Spring 2021
Existential Risk
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July 2021
Pain
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Feburary 2021
Slipstream Pistons
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Insanity
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Spring 2020
FEAR
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January 2021
Revealing What's Inside
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Fall 2020
Antikythera Mechanism
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January 2021
Kimberly said, "WOW"
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Spring 2020
Empty Nest
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Fall 2020
Looking down on us while we are all looking up.
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Summer 2020
Accelerator
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Fall 2020
Yellow Dharma Wheel
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Summer 2020
Feathered Art Deco
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Summer 2020
Cesar liked it and Kimberly wanted to frame and hang me.
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Spring 2020
Annihilation
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Meat is Murder
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Burtonesque
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Spring 2020
Stained Glass Dragonfly
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Spring 2020
Cesar liked it's simplicity
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Spring 2020