In preparation for winter I painted a number of odd links in aluminum and hung them up.
In my lily pad post, and the waterfall one with Steve, I employed a stamping technique found in Photoshop. The process allows one to transfer bits and pieces between and around images. In this instance I chose a shot of the odd links and gave it the treatment. It ended up quite fractured and a bit Analytical.
I would so dearly love to get a like result in real life.
We might discuss the difference between what might and what can be.
Jay,
Simply beautiful. I dearly hope the real life work is as good as the pixellated one. If that is so, I must say you have a great piece of art there… I loved the shot. It might be useful to get a shot that shows the size of the original art work in relation to some known object…
Sunil
Sunil:
Why thank you.
since I still don’t have any notion of how to include an image in a comment, I’ll have to e-mail the original to you.
This post was a response to the tractor pulling that some of my other posts have amounted to. This was quick and rather spontaneous – one of those Zen things to which I allude. While I enjoy the mixture of edge and fuzz that I see here, I am also bothered by the fact that this little exercise has added another item to an already impossible to do list. The fact of the image infers a like fact in three dimensions, which I can only imagine happening with actual smoke and mirrors. Call it a moving goal post.
Jay,
Thank you. I liked the image you sent over. For some reason I liked the photo better (like I wrote to you)… Maybe the fact that it covers the frames completely, a high height to width ratio and the odd angles – it draws me a lot more than the waterfall experiment you had tried previously. Super… I plan on painting this one sometime soon… (if it is OK to appropriate your image).
Sunil:
The photo that I e-mailed shows a rack of stuff hung randomly. It’s completely off the map in terms of any linkage. First to go was the background. Those areas were filled in by magic wand with sampled colors from the pieces. Once I had more or less replaced the background with a neutral plate of gray, I was then able to stamp about without redistributing pieces of green etc.
I admit that I too like it better than the waterfalls. There’s nothing like jutting silvery angles and straight edges to put a little spring in one’s step. Ask Warhol.
You are actually going to paint it? Please share when you’re done.
Jay,
Why don’t you insert the photo for all of us to see into your post.
Birgit:
I’ll certainly give it a try.
I suppose Cubey is as Cubey does, but I think you should call it Robot Descending a Hillside.
Steve:
Reminds me of a look back to the Armory Show in a recent art magazine. There one sees a newspaper competition in which the winner most convincingly found the nude in ‘nude Descending a Staircase”. In this case I seek in vain the robot – but it might be the least-stamped center section. in all fairness, we should not discount the possibility that robots, too, can descend staircases.
Sunil:
I just noticed that you may be awaiting my signal to commence your version. As one might say, the Sunil the better.
Thanks, Jay.
OK, then. I will get to as sunil as possible.