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.
The idea when I took the photos making up this collage was to get my client up against one of her favorite pieces of furniture, a large armoire / wardrobe closet. Later, when I cut up the proof sheet into pieces to do a mock up of the piece I realized how crucifix-like the pose was. This led me to this page and it’s challenge to think about beauty and pain/hurt together.
This is day two of the week long series from my ‘Sketchbook with Voices’ a sketchbook given to me back in the 80s that had an assignment, idea, or statement about art at the top of each page.
The assignment was to make something with one hand so instead of using just one hand I decided I would only have one hand in the collage. I loved the idea of a hard to recognize hand coming out of a figure with no hands. I was turning the two body parts into a new, unknown body part.
For many years after we moved from California and I wasn’t creating art work for exhibiting and selling I was creating backgrounds for my computer. I probably made at least one a day for many years.
The original photographs were not mine, but were taken from online fashion photographs in most cases, then used in the collage. Click on the image then go to ‘all sizes’ to see it as large as it should be seen. Use it as a background yourself if you would like.
