This Has Been Giving Me A Lot Of Trouble!

During certain portraits I want certain results.

Gunpowder is involuntary.

I wanted to hold volume. 

The explosion fought me.

Less gunpowder.  To hold proportions.

They became so small they disappeared.

What's the fun it that?

Gunpowder Lite?

I don't know what the explanation is.

This has been giving me a lot of trouble.

So the paintings I'm doing now.

I take away.

I take away.

I take away.

Now it contains more energy.

More violence. 

Can we please contain the violence?

Maybe there is a reason.

The explosions dominate the space.

Can I stretch it to infinity.?

I'll need a bigger factory.

I think this is the reason it is possible.

A painting that resembles a head.

I did the math in my head. 

For sure, a head can become a sculpture.

Boom!

Artist Stick Vega studied mathematics and economics, earning a B.S. in economics from UW-Madison and an MBA from Edgewood College. He owned and was CEO of online apparel retailers WinterSilks and Venus Sportswear.  However, upon selling the companies more than a decade ago he headed straight to his studio - The Blast Factory in Madison, WI - to create explosive, modern art with gunpowder and high-speed fuse.  Stick's current work includes paintings, drawings, fusographs (exploded photographs), sculpture and writing. Please follow Stick on Facebook and/or Twitter.