I've been playing with an american flag in my mind. As a theme for a quand meme piece. it lends itself, as any country would, to this kind of portrayal.
As an early notion, I've would like for it to be transparent, or translucent one.
a passage. Just looked up a synonym for journey, and found this word, passage.
I'm listening to madvillain, and it occurs to me that I don't have to be limited, in the scope or narrative of a quand meme, to nudes. I can build a narrative off of random events.
In fact I was thinking of when he says, '500 just layin in the street. Shit, I just wanted something to eat…'
Or something to that effect.
Using archival footage, not unlike moby or a rap producer uses samples.
I suppose in this respect, the image of the boy and the horse can work, in 'while the night taper burns'
However, I am trying to make perfect pieces.
Speaking of things, I need to work on my site.
The thing about the boy and the horse, in while the night taper burns, is that the threshold. I like the idea of the outline, like the scrub away of the girl's shoulder i did for the soho girls, back in 98 or whenever it was, but
I was browsing and came across a technique used by leonardo da vinci called sfumato. This should be, or else some approach similar could be used in 'the last night drive' where I'm trying to place the model in the event. Her edges are giving me problems
The technique is a fine shading meant to produce a soft transition between colours and tones, in order to achieve a more believable image. It is most often used by making subtle gradations that do not include lines or borders, from areas of light to areas of dark. The technique was used not only to give an elusive and illusionistic rendering of the human face, but also to create rich atmospheric effects. Leonardo da Vinci described the technique as blending colours, without the use of lines or borders "in the manner of smoke"
also, aeriel perspective. Anbother technique another technique he used in the mona lisa. is the setting of the horizon. In the mona lisa, he placed it at eye level, which adds to the provocative nature
be nice if I could suggest her toe stepping in a puddle, and blurring with light effects the world around her.
I could use the emanating waves
I don't want to forget, and I want to keep it in the forefront, that this series, is a meeting and interplay of shape, form, and texture, to be looked at from a distance, if one can't see the details.
I like the idea of using water, like that artist used water... renoir?, the boating party?. fuck it just took me forever, but it's monet, la grenouiller. Renoir did one too, but the monet one is the one I'm thinking about
It would be the vantage of a macro shot, with the camera inches from the ground, and her toe stepping on the water which wiggles, creating effects around her...
be tricky
be good if it'd be more of a compositional design, then perhaps suggestive only after close examination
venus
According to Hesiod, Venus had been born of the sea after the semen of Uranus had fallen upon the waters. Coming ashore in a shell she had clothed her nakedness in myrtle, and so the plant became sacred to her
isis afrodite
I think I found another thing, 'make wonderful' It's a good effect. gives a glowing quality
The image is shaping up to be a 'birth of venus' apocryphal, although it more accurately an isis-afrodite sensuate, ok so these aren't teh right words, but yeah.
I'm working on themes of rebirth in the sea, and arrival to shore. I've got several examples, but it's complex work.
Of rebirth, or rennaissance, and crossing, or passing from one place or phase to another.
I'm working on 'msle.qui danse aux fleurs', thinking about the window and also using 'stars', or lake shine beneath her feet.
