see Blooming Babel
A studio mate asked me what the point was that I'm trying to make with this project, andit was difficult to answer. What point do writers mak when they create stories about fictional characters? Rahter than make a point, I am asking questions and exploring the inner lives of people, as I imagine them. By creating costumes, styling hair, clothes, and makeup, and shooting in sets I build or existing places like shopping malls and restaurants, I am trying to look into a context in which I do not live. Maybe it's a parallel life I would be living if I were like other 57 year old ladies.
Thursday, February 26, 2015
Friday, October 14, 2011
Thursday, July 7, 2011
You had to be there/Photosynth and Big-ass Prints
You Had To Be There
Photographs
With the exception of “Sylvia,” all of these photographs were made using the iPhone app called Photosynth. Photosynth stitches together multiple overlapping photographs into one image. It seems to have been designed with the intention of sending the photos to friends, who can look at them by either swiping their finger over their phone screen or moving the mouse around, the way Google Street View pictures can be viewed. But I like the flattened out photos. They are a compression of movement, several perspectives seen at once. They can capture different instants in time and put them all together, a quantum rolling pin. These photographs are all taken in built spaces; I enjoy using the app to interact with architecture.
View one of these in "3-d" by clicking here...(you will need to have theSilverlight software to view it...
Some of the images lend themselves to very large printing; I had them printed in black and white on bond paper, and then applied color (or not) to them according to the texture, line, and imagery in the photograph. I wanted to make large images that one can only experience in person, standing with them. They function as a hybrid of photography and painting. Those images whose final form are color photographs lend themselves better to printing than to hand-coloring.
Now click here to see a panorama of a hand-colored print of another panorama--fake hands, everything is FAKE!
Photographs
With the exception of “Sylvia,” all of these photographs were made using the iPhone app called Photosynth. Photosynth stitches together multiple overlapping photographs into one image. It seems to have been designed with the intention of sending the photos to friends, who can look at them by either swiping their finger over their phone screen or moving the mouse around, the way Google Street View pictures can be viewed. But I like the flattened out photos. They are a compression of movement, several perspectives seen at once. They can capture different instants in time and put them all together, a quantum rolling pin. These photographs are all taken in built spaces; I enjoy using the app to interact with architecture.
View one of these in "3-d" by clicking here...(you will need to have theSilverlight software to view it...
Some of the images lend themselves to very large printing; I had them printed in black and white on bond paper, and then applied color (or not) to them according to the texture, line, and imagery in the photograph. I wanted to make large images that one can only experience in person, standing with them. They function as a hybrid of photography and painting. Those images whose final form are color photographs lend themselves better to printing than to hand-coloring.
Now click here to see a panorama of a hand-colored print of another panorama--fake hands, everything is FAKE!
“Sylvia” ©2011 Digital photograph from IPhone finger painting over photo (black & white) 48" x 36"
“Sylvia” ©2011 Digital photograph from IPhone finger painting over photo 11" x 8.5"
"Skin" ©2011 Oil pastel on digital photograph 48" x 36"
“Red Castle” ©2011 Acrylic on black & white digital photograph 36" x 40"
“Cloud” ©2011 Digital photograph (black & white) 36" x 120"
“Shell” ©2011 Tempera on black & white digital photograph 36" x 60"
"Ventricles" ©2011 Digital photograph 20" x 30"
"Green Room" ©2011 Digital photograph 30" x 20"
"Offering" ©2011 Digital photograph 20" x 30"
Saturday, May 14, 2011
IPhone as art tool. A sampling:
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Finger paintings using the painting apps:
Eileen making fondant patterns (in progress)
(finger painting over photo of my ink drawing)
(finger painting over photo of my ink drawing)
Sylvia
(finger painting over wood panel background from app)
(finger painting over wood panel background from app)
His Inner Dude
Lucy
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regular photo showing indoor and outdoor context
self-portrait using Super Camera app
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pictures of Jimi Hendrix directly off the tv screen
Picture off of TV screen with lucite ball in front.
Sherlock Holmes played by Jeremy Brett
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photos using the Photosynth app that stitches photos together
photos using the Photosynth app that stitches photos together
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Tuesday, April 12, 2011
Digital Pinhole Pics
HI! I made a pinhole camera out of a cardboard box* and then put my digital camera in it to take these photos. I lightened and increased the saturation on a few of them to make them more like my memory of that lovely, ghoslty image I saw when I put that box over my head.
* How I did it:
Digital photos of the images it made:
* How I did it:
- punch a hole in the center of one end of the box;
- hang a sheet of tracing paper several inches away so that the image projects on it;
- cover all the light seeps in the edges and corners with black tape;
- drape a black cloth over the opening to either look or take a photo.
The Camera
Digital photos of the images it made:
Sunday, April 10, 2011
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