Cheribium

2010/03/14

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 and meta-physical realms. Perhaps a kind of antecedent for the holey ghost. Certainly heavily influenced by Egyptian mythology through Moses’ upbringing in the Egyptian court (Geers 2010), Judeo Christian scripture implies they are something of a vehicle for God’s presence. A merger perhaps of animism and antropomorphism.

The Honourable Minister Xingwana serving Olympia

2010/03/10

The Honourable Minister Xingwana by Andre Clements

The Honourable Minister Xingwana serving Olympia

After Olympia (1863) by Édouard Manet. Published online by arttimes.co.za and in Business Art (April 2010)

Body Language (of Emmanuel Radnitzky)

2010/03/08

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. Something along the lines of ‘Ascending Stairs’ and exploring simultaneous temporal and figurative fragmentation but want someting more inter-subjective.

Charisma

2010/02/25

Charisma

After Las Meninas (1656) by Diego Velázque

Pieza Principal

2010/02/23

Pieza Principal (from Las Meninas)

Reinterpreting Diego Velázquez’s ‘Las Maninas’ (‘The Maids of Honour’) by breaking the original composition into seven visual concepts. Then sourced, combined and averaged at least ten images per concept and in turn combined and averaged those. It relates to ‘Charisma’ which applies a different, perhaps more post-modernist, kind of abstraction process to the same original reference. Here it is more about what emerges from the space of relationships while in ‘Charisma’ the focus is on the compliment of the typical Antropomorphism biased perception of implicit narrative relations.

Pictures in a Modern Style

2010/02/21

Pictures in a Modern Style

Congregation

2010/02/20

Congregation

Again using search engines to source many photographs, in this case for the search term ‘fans’ and composing them into average image of the crowds occupying the stands. The third instalment in the ‘Testaments Stadia’ series.

Deaconry

2010/02/20

Deaconry

I used search engines to source photographs via the search term ‘national team’, mostly groups of athletes posing in uniform for typical group shots. This is the second instalment in the ‘Testament Stadia’ series.

The Temple

2010/01/28

The Temple

Dedicated to what is arguably the greatest religion of our time, competition. Satelite photographs of the world’s fifteen largest stadia, super-imposed, aligned and merged into a single image. The first piece from the ‘Testament Stadia’ series.

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