Original artwork description:

"Right Brain" is a video-work presenting the making-of process of the painting with the same name by the artist Dominic Virtosu. The work is an impressive format (150x130) and features as its centerpiece a huge cactus blooming with magnificent colors.
The artists’ wish was to create a work based entirely on the Right Brain intuition, knowing that the right part of the brain is the more creative and emotional one. Virtosu focused his energy into using the left hand for the full painting process.
Since „left-brained people are supposed to be logical, analytical, and methodical, while right-brained people are supposed to be creative, disorganized, and artistic. But this left-brain / right-brain theory has been refuted by a large-scale, two-year study by researchers at the University of Utah.” – Virtosu wanted to test this theory by allowing, as an experiment, only his left hand to work on this painting.
The experience itself of creating with the non-dominant hand is one that should be attempted by anyone at some point. It creates a feeling of being int the present momen: kind of like a meditation does.
The artist is immersed completely in the work and dives very deep into his subconscious intuition. The process becomes less intellectual and more intuitive in nature and the result, allthough not always visually atractive, is a work that shows the full involvement of its creator. Almost like a shamanic process, this type of creation is channelling a hidden energy by unblocking the paths to intuitive movement and gesture.
The work is created using spray paints and oil colors, sometimes combined and super imposed to create spectacular effects. The spray paints also add a vibrant neon-like glow to the entire canvas, popping out from a distance to really enhance the power of the subject.
The Cactus itself is based on a photograph that the artist himself had taken at the Brussels Botanical Garden, a picture of a magnificent and royal cactus that was expanding outward, like an underwater bubble of air.
Upon closer inspection, one can see that the shapes on the cactus are intricate dabs of paint that intertwine with one another and play a game of contrast and texture to create, in the abstract, the shape of the cactus.

Materials used:

oil and spray paint on canvas