I yet again altered the colours of the coffee paintings and I decided to experiment with the layouts on how to make them an interesting.

At first, I edited it the same as my previous coffee paintings, in the rectangular boxes with black backgrounds but they didn’t feel emotional enough or creative.

I then decided to cut out areas of the paintings and create a somewhat collage of individual pieces. Here, I amplified the hands and duplicated them, to create the idea and sense of being small and overpowered/controlled. I really like the layout of this as it is much more fluid and more abstract which works well with the paintings as they are purposefully messy.

I then decided that I wanted to develop this collage piece and wanted to alter the colours.

I used red this time as the hands were appearing to me as malevolent and controlling, red suggests the idea of evil and danger yet also love and passion. Which is the two very conflicting feelings which are present in an abusive relationship.