The Vision of Faust by Luis Ricardo Falero. Date: 1878.
From the brief on the artmagick site:
Exhibited at the Paris Salon in 1880. In this work Falero depicts Faust’s encounter with the world of Satan, an encounter that takes place in the form of a vision rather than as a physical experience. Faust’s reaction to these figures with tiny eyes, sharp claws and slimy hands is one of disorientation asking ‘Are these the ones who lost themselves, believing Satan’s Lies?’.
I made a note to myself a week or so ago to note some of this fine work from photographer Carlo Van De Roer. He works out of New York and can be contacted on his “About” page of his website.
The mood of his images are so mellow and serene, extremely simple palettes of delicate pastels.
These are from his series of empty pools titled appropriately “pools”.
From Carlo’s “Orbs” series:
And lastly and actually what I find most interesting, is his series of images using an experimental camera originally designed in the 70′s to record what a psychic might see, it captures your “aura”.
Some information about the project found here:
These portraits are made with a Polaroid aura camera developed in the 1970s by an American scientist in an attempt to record what a psychic might see. This project explores the idea that a portrait photograph can reveal an otherwise unseen and accurate insight into the subject’s character.
The subject is connected directly to the camera by hand-plates that measure biofeedback, which the camera depicts as an aura of color in the Polaroid and translates into a printed diagram and description explaining the camera’s interpretation of the subject.
I mean, if this is the graphical energy these people are giving off, how amazing would that be? It’s fun in this case to susped disbelief, purely for the sake of enjoyment. Look at the beautiful images:
We stumbled in on this show of Nathan Skiles’ work yesterday. The colors alone are fantastic, the clocks are genius. The fact that he uses foam rubber is just plain cool.
From the show’s press release on the Sloan Fine Art site:
In Black Forest / White Lightning, Nathan Skiles presents a collection of densely adorned cuckoo clocks, ranging from the intricately elegant to the over-the-top outrageous, as a means to invigorate his method of associative image making and feed his interest in the incongruous. While the clocks lend themselves easily to observations on the convenient clichés and “rules” of time and space, specific (and repeated) themes within the works expand beyond immediate associations and evolve into musings on the self-consciousness and limits popularly ascribed to these rules. And with his innovative use of foam rubber as his primary material, Skiles tricks the eye and obliterates the baggage of immediate recognition, further challenging his audience to look beyond the immediate and investigate the core issues presented in his work.
I shot some images of his clocks myself, they’re posted here for you to enjoy:
More of Nathan Skiles’ work.
I shot these funny meat grinder art pieces in the Meatball Shop in the Lower East Side of NYC. Kind of neat and vintage but kind of scary also. The food was delicious, in case you’re wondering.
