Optika: Storm Approaching the Desert

Grid: Size 30cm x 30 cm divided in 5×5 cm squares.  Each square is painted using Windsor & Newton watercolours. Created for Daniel De’Angeli’s Advanced Colour Course P2/wk6.

Optika: Red-Green-1

This image is part of my Optika Series of experiments with colour. This work involves the film lighting  filters red and green.

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Mapism is Cubism for the 21st Century!

Cubism, the artistic expression that forefathered all abstract art, was simply a method of portraying multiple dimensions onto a two dimensional canvas. This is not unlike the task of the map maker in representing the earth in two dimensions.

MAPISM is the new Cubism! Where contours of memories, dreams and fragments of history are traced and dugout onto maps of landscapes in the 21st century.

Red Sand Dune, Simpson Desert

I set the tripod on the sand to enhance and exaggerate the ground beneath the horizon line and included a slither of blue sky to orientate the viewer.

Piano Stairs near the Milan Catheral

Video still from my Ground Series in Europe. The stairs at the exit to the Duomo Metro are sensitized to the sound frequencies of a piano.

Cargo Boat in Venice Canal

Video still from my Ground Series in Europe. My aim was to show another perspective of Venice. How they deliver cargo to the city in the narrow canals and the way the reflections of the palaces and boats are distorted by waves and ripples. The camera was hand-held on the railing of the bridge, Ponte De Le Pignate.

Snow in Venice near the Rialto Bridge

Video still from my  Ground Series in Europe: a low view across the snow covered gondolas with the teeth of the bow cutting through the scene like a knife, or waiting to pounce on unsuspecting passers-by. My aim is to explore perspectives that defy linear perspective lines of a single viewpoint