The Artist
Edward Michael Supranowicz is the grandson of Irish and Russian/Ukrainian immigrants. He grew up on a small farm in Appalachia. He has a grad background in painting and printmaking. Some of his artwork has recently or will soon appear in Fish Food, Streetlight, Another Chicago Magazine, The Door Is A Jar, The Phoenix, and The Harvard Advocate. Edward is also a published poet who has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize multiple times.
The Science
Symbiosis is a complex intellectual concept and construct. It can change over time and circumstance from a neutral relationship to a positive one to a negative one or any combination of these possibilities. Having grown up on a farm, the connection between all things was much clearer than it is on an asphalt and concrete "farm of a city". I plowed the fields to plant the seeds that would grow into the food I and others would eat. Whether plants dream, I do not know, but all of nature requires a time of rest to heal and repair and to grow, which is what "In the Night" is meant to suggest. I was always surprised to wake up and see life a bit taller and stronger in the morning.
I worked with acrylics and oils and pen and ink before I started doing digital work. My goals and thought processes have not changed, only the medium used to express them. I use traditional methods to a certain extent: put a base coat down on a blank digital "canvas", define the space with some basic forms and outlines, then allow my imagination to take over. A lot of what I do is intuitive.
Copyright statement. This work is published under the CC BY-NC-SA license