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~18" x 22". ink, pencil, whiteout, pyrography on pine. 2000.
Made at a time when I was playing with split compositions.
Both images are on the same piece of wood. I remember thinking,
"Why do I have to make just one image on one surface."
Anyway, the way brains work, associations are inevitably made between any
two visuals shown together. I was interested in exploring this kind of
emergent meaning.
city kindly owns this now. The imagery very much informs The Vicar's Man-o-War.
Made at a time when I was playing with split compositions.
Both images are on the same piece of wood. I remember thinking,
"Why do I have to make just one image on one surface."
Anyway, the way brains work, associations are inevitably made between any
two visuals shown together. I was interested in exploring this kind of
emergent meaning.
city kindly owns this now. The imagery very much informs The Vicar's Man-o-War.
Category Artwork (Traditional) / All
Species Leopard
Size 577 x 770px
File Size 429.2 kB
Multiple unrelated images on the same surface? Very reminiscent of David Salle. He made juxtaposition of the unrelated the basis of his art ; he's worth checking out, though his art often comes off as unecessarilly random. Usually there's a hidden meaning or general direction to the end product, but it's true it's often obscure or outright inadequate. Still, Salle is unique.
This piece, along with the City piece that has all of the little bits glued to it, are on the wall above my desk. This particular one became a character that I did and still occasionally do RP on Taps. Tamas. Not such a nice guy but a hell of a lot of fun to play. I'm very partial to this stage of your career. I haven't seen anyone really do this with the same panache.
Do you have a record of the other images woodburned on the back?
Do you have a record of the other images woodburned on the back?
We're lucky to have two examples of this stage of your career in the house. You should post the other one (the one of the bear/panther) as I think it's even more integrated than this one. I like that you give the viewer a chance or challenge to come up with a theory to unite the two parts of the image.
I would've uploaded the other image ("Vital") except that my only scan of it is really rather poor.
I didn't know how to stitch together and clean up stuff so well in Photoshop at the time. Even these
uploads today needed considerable processing to make presentable.
Also thannnnnks
I didn't know how to stitch together and clean up stuff so well in Photoshop at the time. Even these
uploads today needed considerable processing to make presentable.
Also thannnnnks
I've been thinking about this piece for awhile and wanting to do similar things in my paintings. However, I'm not sure what kind of images I should put together. These two seem pretty random to me, but maybe not. Was there a lot of forethought or a lot of trial and error in placing images together to see how they'd look before finally doing the piece on the board? How did you choose the two compositions?
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