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Following on from ‘Lilith’ which was prompted by Anastasya. Was doing some ‘sketches’ developing ideas for ‘Ascending Stairs’. This is composed entirely from photographs of Anastasya’s on Facebook.
Monthly Archives: March 2010
Relic I
A highlight of the ‘Temple Stadia’ series. The holy grail. The objectification of our true religion, of competition, the unreacable promise of completion and closure. The idol of sentimental aspiration. From 100 photographs of trophies. That something we yearn for, … Continue reading
Posted in Post-digital Painterly Abstractions
Tagged Post-digital Painterly Abstraction, Sport, Testament Stadia Series
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Mall Composure
From 26 images taken with a Nokia e71 walking through Sandton City on my way to the Joburg Art Fair. I’ve often wondered at the sometimes negligible difference between mannequins and some personae. Can’t help but notice their nose is … Continue reading
Posted in Post-digital Painterly Abstractions
Tagged Consumerism, e71, mannequins, Original Photographic Reference, Post-digital Painterly Abstraction, Sandton
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Lilith
Drawing a shroud on a distant yet lucid recollection a visitation, in its place drawing a shroud that is impossible to draw on a memory of falling upwards through a veil, teased touched tormented yet consoled and even requited in … Continue reading
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Tagged Edgar Alan Poe, Feminism, Lilith, Literature, Portraiture, Post-digital Painterly Abstraction
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Cheribium
I sifted through literally hundreds of search engine results for photographs of team mascots. While those cutsey babies with wings are popularly but ‘incorrectly’ called cherubs, the real things are strange allegedly rather fierce mythical beings that bridge the physical … Continue reading
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Tagged Post-digital Painterly Abstraction, Sport, Testament Stadia Series
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The Honourable Minister Xingwana serving Olympia
After Olympia (1863) by Édouard Manet. Published online by arttimes.co.za and in Business Art (April 2010)
Posted in Artoon Remixes
Tagged Artoon, Édouard Manet, Minister Lulu Xingwana, Olympia, Realism, SA Art Times
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Body Language (of Emmanuel Radnitzky)
58 of Emmanuel Radnitzky AKA Man Ray’s photographs of female nudes. While not intentional, the visual resonance with Marcel Duchamp’s ‘Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2′ is hardly surprising, in fact I’ve been meaning work around that for a while. … Continue reading
Posted in Post-digital Painterly Abstractions
Tagged Art Photography, Ascending Stairs, Digital Darkroom, Female Nude, Figure Study, Grand Masters, Inter-subjective, Man Ray, Nude, Post-digital Painterly Abstraction
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