fingers fingers

First, my own. Second by artist Jessica Harrison. I did a series of acrylic on paper experimentations, since then I became somewhat fascinated by the forms I could created by drawing fingers and overlaying them. Forms without adding more but pure fingers. Then yesterday I came upon the pencil on paper by Jessica Harrison, fingers creating forms. My work and hers are vastly different but I found interesting how a similar idea can voyage in distinct directions. This piece I made, I sold it, it is quite abstract, raid, very expressionist in contrast to Harrison's work which is very detailed. I enjoyed looking at her work, I felt I could related myself in some distant way.

Yet this reflection brought to my mind more questions, specially why do I have a tendency to reject perfectionist techniques. At times it seems to me that a perfect portrait is no longer sufficient in contemporary art, as if it where something of the last century. So many people out there can do a still life so real that it seems it is the real thing. For me art is a language with which I can put into tangible visuals the thoughts and ideas that in words, in real life I can't. I respect the craftsmanships but something in me just wants to rebel against the academic techniques that has chained and constrained in past times what art is or what art should be.