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Berlin, July 2008Digital photography, edited in Gimp.
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You have a great eye for the composition of an abstract and this is a wonderful example. Great shot!
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Thank you! Art is all around us, we just need to be aware
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Nice Kat. At first I thought it was one of your paintings. Could work toward being one of your paintings. You have a good artistic eye.
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Thanks! Hehe, it could be one of my paintings, you're right. I want to somehow let my photography and painting 'cross-over' and inspire each other...
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This has such an interesting texture. I really like the ambiguity of your recent work, they almost seem like they are in space, but not quite.
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thank you!
ambuguity, i agree, but how do you mean 'in space'? as in, detached from the real world, or .. ?
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Like satellite photographs, but with chipped paint.
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ah okayyy, yeah i see what you mean. like a landscape on a grand scale, which is actually a landscape on a miniscule scale, hehe
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This is a totally fascinating work. The title of "Berlin" gives it a completely different feel from what I would have originally seen. How did you warp photography so drastically as to come up with something so unlike a photograph? I am very impressed.
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first of all, wow, thank you for this comment
i don't understand what you mean with 'warp' the photograph.. i simply took a photograph of some intersting textures/surfaces and edited the colours slightly in Gimp, and this is the result. i am so glad you like! photography is a big inspiration for my painting, perhaps this is why i focus on the small things, the composition of colours, tone, shadows, light, reflections...
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Ohh, I thought you had taken a regular photograph and edited it so much that it was no recognizable as the original photo. Where did you find these textures?
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on a balcony in berlin... it's broken glass in a metal fixture basically...
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Ah, I can see it now. Very cool perspective to make such an abstract photo!
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So much beauty in decay - this one in particular feels like a kind of photographic counterpart to your painting.
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Hmm, beauty in decay, what a paradox, but truth. i am glad you see the "counterpart" to my painting, i am trying to bring a lot of what i see and capture with photography into my paintings. i'm dealing with mixed media these days, i want to get into encaustic painting (amazing, i can't waaaaaait to get my hands on the materials!) and generally start being able to create different kinds of surfaces in my paintings... there is so much inspiration in the world around me, i just have to find out how to put it to good use!
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That sounds like an interesting technique! Before checking it out, it sounded like something to do with alkaline-based distressing
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alkaline-based distressing, lol, i don't even know what to imagine there
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I was thinking of a strong caustic solution rubbed over a painted surface to remove/blister it
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hmmmm, okayyy... interesting thought. blistering the surface, i quite like the sound and imagined picture of that
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