poetry

“Do you know what splatter art is? It’s strange, abstract. It’s taking paint and just throwing it against a canvas, just letting it hits where it hits. It’s violent and messy and it has no rules or patterns or intentions. Bright, vicious colors, thrown everywhere. Some people think it’s just a disaster on paper; that it’s the act of making art by ruining art. Other people adore it. But it’s—it’s just that you can’t undo it, can’t erase anything once it’s there you know? Can’t even try to aim or to make it look a certain way. It’s this clash of paint and canvas in some way that somehow makes something.”

— Onyx & Elm, Breath Mints and Battle Scars, chapter 22