Artwork by Steven Tutino

Artist Statement

I am so free. I love to create. My life is painting and painting is my life. My life is colour and colourful is my life. I love to exist and create. I am so free. Everything is so free within me and I am no longer dead.  I don’t want this to leave me even though I know it will. I am elevated beyond the highest regard for myself. I am princely, comely shaped. I am formless like paint on a canvas and I have marked my spirit onto the canvas as a spiritual testament. I can relax. I can breathe. I love to create and I am so free. Everything in my mind has vanquished and is extinguished and I am a free born creature, primitive, elemental, experiential consciousness immersed in everything experience senses data love sensual beauty of nature creation allegory myth testimony. Loving you is love of all things. I am a cloud of wandering. I am unknown yet not lost. I am so primitive. I am fire and water. I am mythical, abundant, purity, profound and I am high and I want to take the next step towards something higher. This was that step and I love to create. I am free. Art is freedom. Freedom is the nothingness out of which art is given existence, shapely, ornamental, formless as well yet still there, something colourful disordered yet harmonious. Painting is storytelling; can we say the psychology of storytelling? Through representation, the painting gives to you the inner state of my state, the inner matter and secretion and tides and waves and ebb and flow of my heart. My inner freedom. My inner galaxy and cosmos.  I have survived. My life is prolonged. My life is freedom, joy, certainty and bliss. Meaning everywhere and I constructed it myself through the unleashing of every particle of myself onto the canvas. My mind is naked, I am naked, bare and vulnerable but I am not ashamed. Everything natural, everything the way it should be. I’m here and at peace. So much love, fire that is now appeased. For once in a long time I actually feel appeased. Stable. Rooted yet free flowing. Not a being and not a thing.  


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Bio: Steven Tutino is currently an undergraduate at Concordia University in Honours English Literature with an additional major in Theology. His poetry has appeared in Concordia University’s Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in Sexuality, The Paragon Journal and Halcyon Days. His artwork has appeared in Word in the World, The Paragon Journal, The Minetta Review, Beautiful Minds Magazine, GFT Press: Ground Fresh Thursday, Michael Jacobson’s The New-Post Literate, The Omnicult, November Bees, Tree House Arts, South Florida Poetry Review and is set to appear in Second Star Magazine. Steven currently resides in Montreal, Quebec.

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