Got science in the corner. The upper right corner. Gee, I wonder why? It’s backwards, too. Surrounded by red. Like a red flag. Anyway, I haven’t posted here for a while. I was in the process of upgrading to a new computer. A much needed necessity for speeding things up.
This piece is approaching the amalgamator-y hyper-bred-ization I’ve been wanting to execute. So I got some inspiration from contemporary pop artist I googled and discovered—Armand Karpov. He hollows out selections of human figures so that just an empty silhouette is left and then puts a layer of something entirely different under the profile. This is just so fascinating to me, so I thought I’d experiment with that idea here.
Sometimes I think it’s just too easy slapping these digital images together. Like there should be more work in creating them. I get jealous of Photoshop and how easy it is for this program to just instantly display some of the finest details after adjusting a few filters. This also inspires me as well however in my own traditional creative processes. I also realize that I put in hours and hours of work to make original pieces in traditional media.
This piece works for me because it’s the back of a beautiful woman. Previously, I had wanted to do work with models who have tattoos and do some creative combos with my own abstract style along with material created in collaborations with models. I still plan on doing this, but right now, I immediately was able to spit out this piece after a few processes of selecting parts and pieces of imagery from different files.
I allow my selecting to be crude so that the randomness can be worked into new synchronous combinations. I draw inspiration from industrial music and punk rock art, as well as pop art in my hybrid amalgamations. The title “Dvop Your Duo” was used as a title for this piece because I found the letters “dvop” and “duo” on a random file off the internet and I liked how it sounded. It sounded like a notetaker writing dvop as a shorthand of “develop.”
Dvop Your Duo, to me, means developing your second body as Robert Monroe and Robert Bruce describe the non-physical body we all supposedly possess as non-physical beings. Our non-physical natures remain mostly unconscious as we are all wired up to survive life in physical bodies, which require most of our conscious attention. Well, when you meditate, for example, you actually start to develop your second body as you become more aware of it.
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