This is part of a week long posting showing a series I did way back in the 80’s where I combined photographs of body impressions on top of Impressionist paintings.
This is one of Vince and I. My part of it was taken after wearing a bathing suit under my pants for an entire day in anticipation of going swimming, which never happened. When I got back to the hotel with my wife and took off my clothes I had this incredible impression on my stomach from the elastic and asked her to take a photo of it since it was so funny looking.
This was the first photo I took about impressions actually, though it wasn’t until I took a sandal strap impression a few years later that I figured out the connection to the impressionist paintings.
This is a great example of how I use bad photos. The sandal strap photos turned out too purple, made the skin look deathly. But when you put them against the slate green color of the Cezanne painting the purple becomes a perfect color IMHO.
We were in San Francisco for a mini vacation and took a tour of the south of Market gallery area. This San Francisco gallery was airy and the assistant had great eyebrows and there was an interesting painting with the word penis in it and there was a colorful potted tree outside and a wall of tile and next thing I know I have a collage.
