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A second macabre collection of self-portraits from my ‘Portfolio of Horrors’ project, produced in response to The Kick-About No.39. Some of the transformations in this set really make me smile (though that’s not the intended effect on the audience!), because they happened so simply. I don’t know what it says about the specific configuration of…
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Originally, I was going to write a short story by way of a response to The Kick-About No.39, and I even got as far as committing to a rough outline, but while the spirit was willing, the flesh was weak and I couldn’t make it happen fast enough. The prompt originates from Bram Stoker’s Dracula…
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Our last Kick-About together was kicked-off by the cut-outs of Henri Matisse, and specifically his White Alga on Orange and Red from 1947. Inspired by one of Matisse’s less well-known cut-outs, regular Kick-Abouter, Kerfe Roig, treated us to something with touch of Halloween about it – a trio of rather dashing devil masks, and a…
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A nice surprise this week, an email from the people at the Motus Imago film festival to say Fundus is in competition for ‘Best Animated Short Film’. Congratulations must go to Dee Crisbacher, who brought all these Kick-About-produced images to life.
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Red fabric parasols in a side street in a dusty French town, spotted and snapped in the Summer of 2011. Imagine the clink of spoons, a hit of strong coffee, and subtle fizzing of a recently shaken Orangina, and you’re pretty much there.
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The final few images coming at the end of my splurge of activity in response to The Kick-About No.38 – dense layerings of Powerpoint-originated shapes brought together in Photoshop to produce some impressionistic effects.
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A fourth collection of abstract compositions with their provenance in the cookie-cutter toolsets of Powerpoint, inspired by Matisse’s use of scissors and paper and produced as part of my response to The Kick-About No.38. Again, I found myself rather enamoured by the vintage-vibes coming off some of these examples, that sense of something ‘modern’ being…
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A third set of images produced between Powerpoint and Photoshop, produced by way of a response to the cut-outs of Henri Matisse, this week’s Kick-About prompt. Something pleasingly opalescent getting started in some of these layerings, but reminded too of satellite images, and mid-century modern textiles and wall-coverings.
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Our garden is increasingly full of skeletons, but not the spooky kind. One of the pleasures of Autumn is the way in which some plants continue to impress with their form and colour; never showy exactly, but comprising subtle effects inviting closer inspection and reappraisal. Taken at the end of the Summer in 2013, these…
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More images produced as part of my response to The Kick-About No.38, which took the cut-outs of Henri Matisse as its prompt, and more images resulting from an improbably happy marriage between Powerpoint and Photoshop. In contrast to the these previous images, I enlisted one of Powerpoints ‘ready-mades’ – an off-the-peg icon of some seaweed…
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