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Published: 2008-07-28 20:34:33 +0000 UTC; Views: 1155; Favourites: 24; Downloads: 31
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Some kind of female version of Icarus, in my own style.Icarus (Greek: Ἴκαρος, Latin: Íkaros, Etruscan: Vicare) is a character in Greek Mythology. He is the son of Daedalus and is commonly known for his attempt to escape Crete by flight, which ended in a fall to his death.
Again you can feel free to leave your impressions about this, the feeling, the interpretation...
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Can you pleasee explain/do a tutorial on how you did the background? It looks like you used tape if I'm not mistaken and I love how it came out
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Damn it's been a while since I haven't made this kind of technique, it works better in the summer though because I always make a huge mess with my ink splatter. I will think about it though and try to give you a little illustrated tutorial.
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Yay! c: I will be waiting hopefully
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cool 
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You can make your own interpretations there.
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Herm... I'm trying to write this without reading the comment at the top...
First of all the color is striking. The green with the flowers is so... springy. So alive. But it completely goes against the actual focal point of the picture. She is essentually a nude figure with missing limbs, decapitated, and her body looks emaciated, anorexic, with sewn up flesh. And this part reminds me of two things: on CSI, this is generally what it looks like after Grissom and the Coroner have examined a body together, and have sewn it back up again. Two, it reminds me of The Joy from Metal Gear 3: Snake Eater, who had a C-section, and all she had to show for it was a long scar down her torso.
Now, onto other things: Those lines behind the woman look like wings. They don't match the style of the deeply detailed figure, which makes them kind of metaphorical.
The wings look nothing like Icarus's are described in Greek mythology (like an eagle's I believe); they're distinctly this woman's. She looks as if she's free, flying away on these metaphorical wings, but she's obviously dead and morbid. She contradicts herself, being both cheerfully blissful with the colored background, but also sad and gaunt and decomposing.
Curious and curious.
I like it. A lot. And NOW I'll read the other comments.
-La La
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Man I wish I could answer something a little more fluffy but you just leave me speechless. All I can say is thank you for sharing those thoughts!
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You're welcome! Sorry it took such a long time.
-La La
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I have to be honest and say this picture kind of confused me, but in a good way.
Anyway the body itself is kind of sad, it reminds me of the stitch work morticians make during an autopsy. This body strikes me as being young, but the ribcage protrudes out of the body, almost as if the host had starved themselves to death? I guess the dark green color over the body suggests almost a decomposition, but then that bleeds into something much brighter, more alive and the flowers could be the essence of nature taking over death and creating summit new, more life from life… Too deep?
blah blah blah....
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Wow. Your comment is just blowing me away! Your analysis is very right and interesting and I love reading about it. You're right about the autopsy and that's what I wanted to express because many of my characters used to have these kind of stitches. I wouldn't have noticed the green as some decomposition symbolism but you're really right about that too.
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hahaha thanks... Blimey i guess this is what you get for studying photographic art?!
I have lots of work which isnt "Aesthetically" pleasing because its all about the idea and the concept about the work, hence its not on here because i dont think people will really like it (maybe some wont understand it?) So mostly i have submitted nice/feel good stuff..
When your drawing etc, think about how colour can really change an interpretation of the end result, think more psychological.
Try checking out a art writer called Susan Sontag. She died about a year ago but her girlfriend a well known photographer, Annie Leibovitz took photo's through out her death (cancer).. amazing work...
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Do plants make judgements, maybe they dont and thus they are replacing her head, her mind being a plant. I think maybe a flower would dream of flying, its petals fly on the wind, the flower of the mind convinces, with her charms and beauty, that the ragged body can fly.
The tape is an amazing technique.
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i love the flowering for a head. i guess usually for me a head is associated with the thoughts in them and by seeing a flowering in its place, i think of being in a state where i am present with the life within (body awareness)
cool stuff.
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Ah ouais pas mal comme interprétation! J'aime beaucoup. Merci du commentaire <3
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I love this! Very interesting interpretation! love the ink splattered in the background
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