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New Art.
February 24, 2009 9:46 pm
Going back to the masks?
I hadn't seen the "This is the way..." one before in the rotating art page, but I liked these ones enough to head back to the art page and see the older one.
Your colour palette is so red-earthy that my first instinct was to see them as clay. That made me think of Adam being molded, and that led me straight to Athena, springing fully formed from Zeus' forehead.
And then lo and behold - the last few images do seem to be having a conversation about children and parents, and them forming and informing each other.
Thanks for these - you have made me think....
— 5tephe
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Re: New Art.
February 25, 2009 1:47 am
Hi 5tephe,
I've actually been painting these things (they're removable face masks for CPR training manikins) for the past year. I'll update the old stuff with a few of the paintings from that time. None of them really worked, though, until these new ones, which are all from this month.
I feel like I'm just slow when it comes to this stuff. It took me more than a year of painting these things exclusively to figure out what they wanted to be doing: namely, uh, reproducing. Any twelve-year-old could have told me that.— Kit Roebuck