137. Stan Lee: Magic Lantern Camera
atelier ying, nyc.
Reading about Stan Lee, I was struck by his remark about religion: "Well, let me put it this way... No, I'm not going to try to be clever. I really don't know. I just don't know". Very honest and candid of course, which we all respect as the modern dilemma, yet it sparked ideas in me for a way to bridge (reconcile) various things, which is my self-conceived art process.
Playfully, the "Green Lantern" sees its own upgrade with the Magic Lantern from the past. I won't belabor with what can be studied from the drawing's notes; a circular cigar humidor to meditate upon the divine, a removable space within the camera to allow it to function as a projector-camera, and an all-terrain base recalling the design of a Cathedral nave.
A personage from history with a complex religious belief, Marcel Proust can perhaps lend a way to bridge things. His famous magic lantern of his bedroom is a device which struck me as very amenable if coupled with a viewfinder that is geared to revealing and concealing (In this case it is the light itself representing the Divine), and dealing with the unattainable, which is contained in the text of Stan Lee's statement. Edward Hopper also dealt with the unattainable, as I have mentioned in my previous design for him. It is my self-belief that everything is related to everything or can be made so, profitably. And to see and coax out the connection between things is an important if not main idea of what I'm trying to do. This in itself is a form of spirituality in my opinion.
Design, text and drawing are copyright 2013 by David Lo.
137. Stan Lee: Magic Lantern Camera
atelier ying, nyc.
Reading about Stan Lee, I was struck by his remark about religion: "Well, let me put it this way... No, I'm not going to try to be clever. I really don't know. I just don't know". Very honest and candid of course, which we all respect as the modern dilemma, yet it sparked ideas in me for a way to bridge (reconcile) various things, which is my self-conceived art process.
Playfully, the "Green Lantern" sees its own upgrade with the Magic Lantern from the past. I won't belabor with what can be studied from the drawing's notes; a circular cigar humidor to meditate upon the divine, a removable space within the camera to allow it to function as a projector-camera, and an all-terrain base recalling the design of a Cathedral nave.
A personage from history with a complex religious belief, Marcel Proust can perhaps lend a way to bridge things. His famous magic lantern of his bedroom is a device which struck me as very amenable if coupled with a viewfinder that is geared to revealing and concealing (In this case it is the light itself representing the Divine), and dealing with the unattainable, which is contained in the text of Stan Lee's statement. Edward Hopper also dealt with the unattainable, as I have mentioned in my previous design for him. It is my self-belief that everything is related to everything or can be made so, profitably. And to see and coax out the connection between things is an important if not main idea of what I'm trying to do. This in itself is a form of spirituality in my opinion.
Design, text and drawing are copyright 2013 by David Lo.