Flame of love,
I gave myself
to Love Divine.
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Art influences I would say are Bernini of course, Dali, postmodern digital art (especially in the clumbsy photoshop cut-out making it not commercial art), and something obscure, a Tarot deck called the Secret Dakini Oracle Deck, by Slinger & Douglas. I have long loved mystics, of any religion, creed or belief system. Sainte Thérèse d'Avila was a wild, beautiful and divine woman mystic.
The model? I don't have to pay her.
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ReplyDeleteI keep trying to figure out what the red piece really is, but it doesn't matter. I like the repetitive use of forms in this.
ReplyDeleteSomething on the process: I used an ordinary digital camera set on a tripod with poor lighting. Then did everything in Photoshop Elements. I could have cut the figure out properly, but decided I liked the rough cut. And I liked the negative space left by the rough cut and so used the marque tool to cut the shadow out at well (it's more carefully done, you'll note)! I kept the transparency at 100% though normally when working with multiple images of the same figure I don't. It's the first time I've done lettering letter by letter, each one being a separate layer, but doing it that way allowed me to place the letters individually. There are limitations with the software, for instance I used Lucida handwriting, and cannot make the letters fatter as I would like. I took a sunset from Vancouver when I lived there and cut it in half and rotated it for the upper colouring, and copied the layer and also placed it in the lower corner. I enhanced the sunsets to bring out the red. I had to cut bits out of the sunsets to maintain the dramatic form and colours of the figures. The red pieces are from a red satin Chinese curtain that I had pulled aside to clear the room for the photograph. I researched Sainte Therese on the NET to find her poetry, but ended up forming some words as an amalgam, to symbolize, from hers and St John of the Cross's writing, thoughts, beliefs. I wanted it to be very simple, yet powerful.
ReplyDeleteMB, I'm sure that's more than you wanted to know! But you asked... about the red bits :)
Gorgeous -- and I love the peek into your process.
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