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Patrick
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I love the contrast between the soft colours & shading against the bright reds and grainy look.
Very nice work on this
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You got one hell of an understanding of colour
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I love the variety of colors you put in here, it has that nice burning effect
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Beautiful colors and great concept! It all flows together really well ^^
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Very cool work! Lovely design and i love the intense colours
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+ Interesting colour, and the pencil like lines framing the face work well. You have a very unique style, ^^.
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Thats great could see it been used as the background of an advertisement. I'm not sure about the bit down the LHS it doesnt really fit. Great choice of colours apart from that. Would like to see a more narrow crop.
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Wow, the colours are perfect to describe the feeling it conveys.
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I like the composition and love the colors! This would make a good poster or something.
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This is a very interesting and beautiful piece. I think a surreal composite type of image is exactly what I imagine when I think of 'cognition'. I like how you blend the use of white and pale colors of the head/hair with the kind of rainbow echo happening elsewhere - a mix of complexity and simplicity just like the mix that exists in cognition. I wish I could articulate what it is about this that I like so much better, but alas I am pretty sleepy 
...now excuse me
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Thank you sir. 
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Oh very cool. And it's miss
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Bah, I always forget that with your icon.
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Thats really a new take in photomanipulation and I really like it that way
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I haven;'t seen this kind of photomanipulation before, it is definitely original. The colors here are very bold, something I much admire. Like someone already said the division seam is a bit too visible and distracting though it is something I only see at the top of the head. Going more down it works well with the picture.
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Thank you for your thought-out comment. The division was intentional, though I have a feeling it's one of those decisions that I'll always be uneasy about.
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I like it, overall. At the heart of it is a sensual photograph and the warm colours are typically associated with love, desire and passion. At the same time the actual technique, the lines and shapes are quite jagged and rough. The vertical tube in the middle makes me think of vertebrae, which gives the whole piece an anatomical, even violent edge.
Having said that, I think there are some choices which don't really work. You've divided the entire thing down the middle, and the seam is clearly visible. To pull this off the two 'halves' either need to be more stylistically different or the seam needs to be invisible.
Another thing that occurs to me is that this would work really well with some typography. Or maybe your style would look good on some text-based art; I dunno. Oh, and contrary to ~Chardyice I really like the yellow circle; it looks like a sun setting on a cyborg's last day on earth
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First, thank you for your thoughtful critique. You are certainly right about the uncomfortable feeling of the centering. I was aiming to make the subject pivot awkwardly on its own axis; though its perfectly centered, and both halves are clearly visible, there's an inability to grasp it for the viewer. I was trying to represent the elusiveness of thought in this manner, though the aesthetic does indeed suffer.
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Trial and error are the best teachers
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why do you put it in surreal? just wondering?
I see it more like a sci-fi or somehow pop art
I think is full of modernity but I don't really understand what you want to express with your work.
Hope you had happy holidays
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It could be perceived as sci-fi, true, but I think of it more as the manifestation of the place between the conscious and the unconscious. I think in making this I was trying to get at a truer vision of the self, that fetal all-spine self, and though having failed epically in that regard, there is little that is science fiction about it.
Thanks for stopping by, hope you had a good holiday too.
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OH I see
I always need a little bit of deeper explanation for your work cause I never get a thing
thanks
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Really awesome! Really has a spiritual feel to me kind of like an astral body.
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That yellow circle is distracting. Does it have a significance or a sort?
I've gotta admit, I've never seen this style of art before, so it's rather odd and difficult to give thoughts... I'm not a colour person, so, yeah.
I notice a slightly sketchy look though. That's a nice touch
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Thank you.
It is there partially for balance and also partially for symbolism; suggesting a different place for the subject physically and mentally.
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Ahh. Now I'm beginning to see.
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Butting in here, I actually think the yellow circle adds some balance to the overall composition, but that's just me. Heh
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*squints really hard*
I think I might be able to see in your point of view. Ah, well. I don't know how to appreciate this kind of art
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It is different that's for sure
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wow, fantastic colors, matt! the sketched look is great here.
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