About a month ago I was approached by Ana Bracho Vegas, Editorial Coordinator for Venezuelan Pop magazine Tendencia", regarding my print "Osama Ben Diesel. Anna requested my permission to publish the print as part of an article the magazine had planned about Political Pop Art.
The article was published this month and I’m especially excited about it as Venezuela isn’t too famous for being pro-Israel these days…
Funnily Political Pop Art is one of the domains I purchased for this site years ago…
As always, if you’ve enjoyed reading I’d appreciate it if you’d link back and share this with your friends.
I’ve had the good fortune to get my art featured in the July 2009 edition of DP - Arte Fotográfica - a Portuguese magazine dedicated to Digital Creativity.
My heart felt thanks to Jorge Guedes, DP’s editor, who found my crap worthy
I’m particularly pleased about the exposure this secures for my print “Ahmadinejad’s Daughter” which reflects my deepest fears at the thought that this maniacal tyrant is inches from getting his hands on an atomic bomb.
It amazes me that despite the recent horrific events in Iran, which exposed just how ruthless and brutal this regime really is, the nations of world remain largely indifferent at the thought of a nuclear Tehran.
Is the sacrifice of those poor Iranians who dared protest the massive fraud in the last “elections” truly meaningless? Have we learned nothing since 1939?
I’ve always been know for being something of an “Angry Young Man”,
which is a polite way of saying I’m somewhat of a stubborn arrogant fool.
I’ve never asked people to like me, nor have I sought recognition for my art,
which is a polite way of saying I’m too proud to realize how stupid I am.
About a month back I swallowed my pride and submitted a request to join Hertzliya’s Artist Association.
This was the first time I’d requested any form of recognition from an official artist group.
Earlier today I was notified that I’ve been accepted.
As a side note it seems I’m not only the newest member but also the youngest…
Am I growing up?
At the tender age of 35, nearly four years after I began my artistic journey, it finally dawned on me that “No man is an island“.
I feel that for me this is an important step towards artistic maturity.
I’ve admitted to myself that as much as I enjoy creating the raw material I use in my imagery, I greatly prefer the editing and photo manipulation part of my process. I’ve realized I enjoy the dialog and the artistic collaboration with photographers and artists, who’s images I incorporate into my prints, that my process requires. Above all I’ve internalized that the ability to collaborate is important for me as a person and as an artist.
My artist statement
I do art ’cause it makes me happy!
Everything else is a bonus…
I’m a Digital Pop artist and proud of it.
Technology, consumerism, urbanity, and their relation to nature
Looking forward
As of today I gladly admit that I’m on the lookout for new people and new images to work with so if you’ve got images you’d like to suggest for me to use in my prints, or projects you’d like to collaborate on please drop me a line. If have artist/photographer friends who you think might be interested please share this with them.
I’ve recently added another pearl to my ever growing string of profiles and enlisted to the “London Calling 2009” artist competition by joining the online art community myartspace.com. This is my submission for the competition as displayed by the excellent presentation widget MyArtSpace features (click the play icon):
Well that’s all for now. Have a great weekend : )
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A while ago a gentleman emailed me asking if I planned a print in response to the financial situation. Two days ago, that crisis hit home when the firm I’ve been working for “downsized” half it’s workforce in a single day, causing me, and 14 other unfortunates, to become unemployed.
I don’t know if it was getting laid off (for the 1st time in my life) that did it, but today as I was driving up to Jerusalem the creative block dissolved and I got a vision for my response. The paradigm I was facing was how to be critical of those I perceive as being responsible for the crisis, without being too blatantly offensive (as I am prone to be). I also wanted to offer a vision of hope, rather than one of gloom and doom. Ever since Ahmadinejad’s Daughter I feel like I need to balance out some of the negativity and today, after Obama’s victory, seemed like a great day to do it.
I think I’d like to make a print based on a classic “Lot’s Wife ” piece where I would retain the composition but replace the unfortunate and disobedient Lot’s wife with a banker type character looking over his shoulder.
Instead of Sodom and Gemoroh I would have the crumbling bastions of capitalism represented by a skyscraper skyline. At the foreground, or maybe on the side, I would have a group of people fleeing the catastrophe towards a safer, greener, simpler existence.
I guess I’d try and capture the Utopian vision that Bill Gates has for a post-capitalist society, mix it up with a vision of a more ecologically friendly world, and offer it as a new Eden.
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