Saturday, October 30, 2010

Gemini


Twins are pervasive in Mythology. In fact, noted mythologist Joseph Campbell has found this and other myths to be transcultural. Perhaps the metaphor of the twin speaks to the dualistic nature of our experience in which is always a disconnect with what we think and what we actually experience. Good and bad, two sides of the same coin. There is some reason we as a culture are interested in twins. Maybe to help explain this mystery.

The image here is a photograph I took from a reverse bas relief on a building in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The actual sculpture is concave, creating the illusion of a face protruding from the building as you walk by, an optical illusion. Even though the faces are identical, the way the color falls on them makes each seem slightly different.

Friday, October 29, 2010

Point of View

The mirrored photo of the woman is from a bas relief wall at the entrance of Chinatown in Montreal. The building is also a photo from Montreal. The texture comes from still shots of images from tv and movies. The design was created and manipulated in several programs.

Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Treeconstruction


There is a 3D element to this image created in a vector based program and manipulated further in a pixel based program. The photo of the tree was taken just after the leaves fell in fall. If you follow the lines of the 'construction' you can see that there is not just a 3D feeling but also an optical illusion.

Monday, October 25, 2010

Urban Jungle


Marina Day


The photograph is of the Marina Towers in Chicago. The texture and clouds are from macro photo close ups of three separate paintings from the Smart Museum at the University of Chicago. The perspective to the image comes from the digital replication of tilt shift photography.

Thursday, October 7, 2010

Blue Ghost Flower



Blue Ghost flower is a reference to Adaptation a movie by Charlie Kaufman. In it the characters search for the Ghost orchid. The image here is originally a photograph of a flower, then printed and painted on, and brought back into the digital realm where it was manipulated further. The yellow leaves in front of the flower were wholly made digitally and never existed in the outside world. The two now exist weaved together in harmony.

Thou Art That



Tat Tvam Asi, from the Sanskrit meaning That thou art.

The photo of the male and female are the same, taken from a black and white movie still. The paint drips and graffiti are from Montreal in one of the public parks. The birds reference the Animus and Anima, a Jungian concept. The writing is left handed (right brained) stream of consciousness.


Wednesday, October 6, 2010

Strongman

What happened to the circus strongmen? Where did that archetype go?

The photo is from a fence guarding construction in Montreal. The dots are a close up shot of braille and the repeated design is from a Turkish food stall in the main outdoor market in Montreal. Strongman mustache added.