Envy
Medium: Combined lithograph and solarplate print
Image size: 295 x 295mm
posted by Anonymous at 5:31 pm
Saturday, May 28, 2005
Medium: Combined lithograph and solarplate print
Image size: 295 x 295mm
Medium: Combined lithograph and solarplate print
Image size: 295 x 295mm
26 Comments:
Sometimes envious of people who can live life as 'normal'. Getting chilly down under; that time of the year when mobility is confined to a little boxed room in a little boxed house and ability is constrained to the little box computer. Can't wait for Spring already. Apologies if image disturbs.
It does not disturb me, but you know how I am. Still, I don't see what would be disturbing about it. I love it. Beautiful and rich.
I am very familiar with all those little boxes, too. I don't know if I want to be "normal" or not, but I sure as hell don't want to this. I do know what you mean, though. Can be very frustrating.
Thank you Miss Daze, you are the second EVER to like one of this series. They have been rejected that many times from exhibition submissions; last time submitted just to create a stir and be defiant!
It proves that most 'normal' people, and I agree would never want to be THAT normal, turn a blind eye when art can show truth about raw subjects. Not unlike ignoring another's pain or acknowledging that someone elses space is completely different.
True, going through the anger before depression this time round - very frustrating.
I love this very much.
I don't find this disturbing at all, and were I a gallery owner I would definitely accept it. It's gorgeous, and I love the rich colors and textures.
But then, I'm not a gallery owner and have never claimed to be normal.
pretty phenomenal luv, can't stop looking at it! know what you mean about winter hibernation, isn't much fun:( although i find that extreme heat slows me down just as much as the cold and damp does. you just take it easy, spring'll hopefully come soon enough
cheers,
kerry
Anon, don't feel down re: not making it as part of exhibition submissions...I'm still waiting for my own call-up, and never (ok hardly ever) seem to make it into the hanging section of art comps.
As for this piece, again I like it a lot, there's something to be said about the diametrically opposed colour quadrants, which to me indicates the walking contradiction that we as humans are.
So keep on "churning" out these pieces because an eager audience DOES exist for your work.
Detlef
http://www.detlefjumpertz.com
I like the rich colours and different texture ...pretty interesting!
GAWD... The intricacies... the texture... I wish I could touch it.
I'm totally ENVIOUS of your artistic talent and ability to see things beyond the obvious and mundane!
Thanks Shelly, I can see how this series corresponds to your work - you have made a biological connection.
You are too kind Aravis, Narray, and Ms Elle.
There is reference to both cold and heat Kerry, plus what Detlef sees in the diametrically opposing colour.
Not down re this lot never being hung, angry more like it ... best work is not asthetically pleasing nor 'accessible' to mainstream showings - not within the box. Do know a gallery it would be hung, might make an exhibition of series ... in Spring. You are very right Detlef, IF audience is both eager and supportive. Thanks XOX
See, you have several people who like it! No one should dare consider the quality of artwork based on what gallery owners will or will not accept. Phooey.
You know that cliche about how you are never alone? I think we are alone, for the most part. No matter how many traveling companions you gather, your journey and how you experience it is yours alone. If your experiences are off the beaten path then the average person is not going to "get it."
Also, something I'm slowly laboring to get at: Anon, you are not without emotional support or those who care. Don't ever hesitate to email me if you feel a desire or need to talk.
I agree with what you say Miss Daze about your journey being alone. Thank you for your support Miss Daze :) PS Love your new Voyage to Nowhere page.
Evocative. Real. Thanks.
There is a gritty wonderfulness in your work! Most gallery owners/managers had to go to school to 'recognize' and 'appreciate' art. That's sorta like going to cooking school to 'know what tastes good and what tastes like crap'. If someone has to tell you what is art, or what is tasty, then you need clueness school, and a kick in the butt.
Have you noticed that TV and art galleries are similair, they both tend to have endless supplies of boring repettive shit.
Make art based on what's in your head, not based on what the mainstream morons demand we conform to...
:-)
P.S. I rilly like the red lower right painting.
Love your Digital Gallery James, like the thought of being evocative :) Aim to keep real.
Gritty Wonderfulness is a compliment to remember forever Steve - thanks! Thought you would like the bottom corner red bit :)
This is a piece of art!
the age old quote holds true, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. my eyes say this one is a great piece, and i have no clue what those gallery guys see. a little variation of color in each box and i like the print in the upper boxes. great job and yet another creative idea from anon. :)
(This may be a second posting- Blogger is being fubar) That is so wonderfully disturbed. It looks like an episode from the old Hellraiser graphic novel series. Beautifully sick and twisted- ME LIKE! Kudos!
Thanks Marion for being positive.
Chacha, the print is a snippet from snippets of poems below. The series shows the poems legible; attempting to go against the grain, and is meant to be disturbing if surrounded by its completeness.
Author unknown, Edited by W.C.Cole from Coles Funny Picture Book:
The girls that are wanted are home girls –
Girls that are mother’s right hand,
That fathers and sisters can trust to,
And the little ones understand
The clever, the witty, the brilliant girl,
There are few who can understand,
But, oh! For the wise, loving home girls
There’s a constant steady demand
Mortality or Why should the spirit of mortal be proud? Author William Knox:
For we are the same that our fathers have been;
We see the same sights that our fathers have seen;
We drink the same stream, we feel the same sun,
And run the same course that our fathers have run.
The thoughts we are thinking, our fathers would think;
From the death we are shrinking, our fathers would shrink;
To the life we are clinging, they also would cling –
But it speeds from us all like a bird on the wing.
Was meant to be disturbing Tony, glad you like twisted.
Spot on Ian T, work is instinctual which closely relates through the senses. I like making books; sometimes not only symbolically but also practically break up to fit the space.
How did that happen? Ian T's comment has dissapeared. Blogger?
This is so dark and beautiful. Is it difficult working with lithography and solarplate print? I have never tried it.
This is how envy feels like i think..
Btw, thank you for your nice comment :).
I have no idea how you do this!
Big Harry
Hello Kyra, no it's not difficult working with lithography and solarplate if treated as two separate stages in production. The solarplates were produced and worked into from the original lithograph then printed as top layers.
We must think alike Rabia.
Thanks for the compliment Harry - I think.
Something about this made me want to work on a similar piece, dunno why--seems like endless possibilities and so much dun. Cool piece.
Mary Stebbins Taitt, I have almost an endless amount of these now HAHHAAA.
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