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People who've been following my stream for a while will have seen the sister image of this one. I don't know how I missed this one earlier, but came by it today while organizing my files. The sister image I processed using some funky experimental effects. I left this one as is and did it all natural.
I'm actually extremely influenced to go all natural with little or not effects (cross processing, warming effects, muted looks, yellowed looks etc etc) after going throught boston Globe's "The big Picture" section. Those who haven't seen it should check it out. They collect the best press photos from different sources of worldwide events occuring/affecting us right now, and the quality of the images is mindblowing.
Hope you guys are having a great weekend so far. Happy Independence Day to all my fellow Indian peeps!
Saarbrücken, »Garage«, 19.02.2019 (Photo: Zippo Zimmermann, www.designladen.com – unauthorized use prohibited)
Something different this time: The beauty of narrow depth of field discovered with an old Fujinon 50/F1.4 on a Nikon D90.
Topaz Adjust to bring out the details in the bread, some PS tweaks to reduce the background saturation.
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Untitled (Hunger 7), Tim Lowly © 1996, tempera on ceramic bowl, 7" x 7" x 4"
This painting is from a series of 21 paintings on the bottom surface of traditional Korean bowls - done for an exhibition I had in Seoul, Korea in 1997. Recently, as I was writing some thoughts on my work to a colleague, it occurred that I had not explained publicly my thinking about and reason for making this work. This seems pretty important given the problematic territory that this work wanders into. What follows is an excerpt from my correspondence:
Around 1995 the “special needs” school that our daughter Temma had been attending for 6 years – Lakeview Learning Center – was preparing to close. I was working at the school on a large painting (titled Big Picture) of the classroom for “severely and profoundly disabled” children that Temma was part of. While working on this large painting I was given a collection of miscellaneous photographs documenting the students in their daily life at the school. Also around this time I was offered an exhibition with a gallery in South Korea, the country where I grew up (my parents were medical missionaries). I decided to make work for this show based on the photographs that I had been given of students from Lakeview Learning Center as a way of making present a population that was largely invisible / marginalized in Korea at that time. My goal in making these paintings was to select photographs that (for me) most powerfully expressed the humanity of these children. In making the paintings my intent was to try to represent them as best as I could in accordance to how I perceived them via the photographs: that is, as completely and compellingly human. Despite my ambivalence about using other people’s photographs as sources for paintings, these photographs – apparently taken by the staff of the school - offered a kind of “objective” perspective on the children somewhat fitting for my relative distance from them personally. That said, to the extent that these children were part of a community of which my daughter was a part I felt it was appropriate to make paintings based representing them.
This latter point is important in relation to the fundamental intent of this project. While I was attempting to portray the children in all their individuality evident in the photographic sources, I was doing so with the primary goal of presenting them as a community: a community as evidently diverse and complex (in various respects) as any other.
There is a well-known (in Korea) poem by the Korean Catholic “Minjung” writer Kim Chi Ha that has an essentially Eucharistic refrain: “God is rice”. In allusion to that poem I decided to do a series of 21 paintings on Korean rice bowls (a very commonly used kind of bowl). More specifically, as an allusion to the marginalization of this population I made the paintings on the bottom / underside (typically unseen) surface of the bowls. In using the rice bowl I not only wanted to draw a connection to Kim Chi Ha’s poem, but further to the movement of Minjung Art that had grown in vitality at the ending period of Korea’s long dictatorship (the early ‘80s). The Minjung Art movement (which, especially in the person of the artist Im Ok Sang, had been very influential for me) made the empowerment of the poor and the marginalized their priority. My hope was to situate the subject of the work I was making – at that time still a largely marginalized community - in the context of the Minjung political imperative.
In this work I was attempting to represent these children as faithfully as I could. It might be helpful to unpack my thinking “representation” a bit: Painting, particularly realistic / representational painting is frequently thought of / received in relation to the convention of “mastery”. That is, when one makes a realistic painting it might be understood as an artists’ claim of mastery and, implicitly, as their claim to an authority over the subject represented. I do not have any interest in that way of approaching painting. I am interested in painting that is a kind of conversation with the material used to make it (as opposed to painting as about control or domination of the material). No less importantly, I’m interested in painting as a regarding of the subject in humility: an attempt to represent the subject as honestly, accurately and respectfully as possible. Put another way: painting for me is learning how to make this painting in relation to trying to understand and represent this subject.
Taking that word representation a bit further: it is of course a reasonable question to ask whether one has the right to represent (make or take a picture of) another person – particularly someone who is not able to give consent. And it is reasonable to question whether I – even as the parent of a member of that community and trusted by the staff of that community – have the right to represent the students. But no less important is the other side of this question: the right of each person to be represented (both literally, in the sense of being pictured, and - via metaphoric implication - politically). In the case of this particular population and the particular context in which these paintings were being shown my intention was to make and show these representational paintings of these children as a claim to their right (authority) to be represented: Particularly towards the goal of advocating the presence of members of this population as they existed in that country at that time.
Opera singer tenor Rafailas Karpis as Tobias Ragg in "Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber"
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Wet Plate Collodion. Tintype
18x24, lens I-37
Epson V600
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My custom movie poster and tribute to one of my favorite films, 'Hunger' (2008), directed by Steve McQueen.
Her facial sculpt is special just for this doll. Her hair is in a braid and is packaged attached to her outfit.
Personal work.
And as she sits there alone,
frozen in time, in love and life.
The hunger for warmth is there,
but is it within reach?
Can she reach for it,
Or will her heart be forever cold?
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Hair repainted.
Some other little elements painted and retouching.
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Being different is somewhat looked at in society as being a menace. In others, it's an act of rebellion, an act that shows pride. But in hearts like mine, it's something to strive for, because myself and others understand that what's seemed as right is wrong, and to prove yourself worthy to know, you must show how truly different you are. However, is the act of being different really all that easier than being normal? In the end, we all are striving just as much as the next person. It just matters what we are striving for, what we are hunger for- the act of being like everyone else, or the act of being unique.
Just a little drabble that was on my mind. This was taken with my new lens. Simple shot, but I like it.
Reread Catching Fire and half of Mockingjay today. Makes me crave the movie.
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Untitled (Hunger 3), Tim Lowly © 1996, tempera on ceramic bowl, 7" x 7" x 4"
This painting is from a series of 21 paintings on the bottom surface of traditional Korean bowls - done for an exhibition I had in Seoul, Korea in 1997. Recently, as I was writing some thoughts on my work to a colleague, it occurred that I had not explained publicly my thinking about and reason for making this work. This seems pretty important given the problematic territory that this work wanders into. What follows is an excerpt from my correspondence:
Around 1995 the “special needs” school that our daughter Temma had been attending for 6 years – Lakeview Learning Center – was preparing to close. I was working at the school on a large painting (titled Big Picture) of the classroom for “severely and profoundly disabled” children that Temma was part of. While working on this large painting I was given a collection of miscellaneous photographs documenting the students in their daily life at the school. Also around this time I was offered an exhibition with a gallery in South Korea, the country where I grew up (my parents were medical missionaries). I decided to make work for this show based on the photographs that I had been given of students from Lakeview Learning Center as a way of making present a population that was largely invisible / marginalized in Korea at that time. My goal in making these paintings was to select photographs that (for me) most powerfully expressed the humanity of these children. In making the paintings my intent was to try to represent them as best as I could in accordance to how I perceived them via the photographs: that is, as completely and compellingly human. Despite my ambivalence about using other people’s photographs as sources for paintings, these photographs – apparently taken by the staff of the school - offered a kind of “objective” perspective on the children somewhat fitting for my relative distance from them personally. That said, to the extent that these children were part of a community of which my daughter was a part I felt it was appropriate to make paintings based representing them.
This latter point is important in relation to the fundamental intent of this project. While I was attempting to portray the children in all their individuality evident in the photographic sources, I was doing so with the primary goal of presenting them as a community: a community as evidently diverse and complex (in various respects) as any other.
There is a well-known (in Korea) poem by the Korean Catholic “Minjung” writer Kim Chi Ha that has an essentially Eucharistic refrain: “God is rice”. In allusion to that poem I decided to do a series of 21 paintings on Korean rice bowls (a very commonly used kind of bowl). More specifically, as an allusion to the marginalization of this population I made the paintings on the bottom / underside (typically unseen) surface of the bowls. In using the rice bowl I not only wanted to draw a connection to Kim Chi Ha’s poem, but further to the movement of Minjung Art that had grown in vitality at the ending period of Korea’s long dictatorship (the early ‘80s). The Minjung Art movement (which, especially in the person of the artist Im Ok Sang, had been very influential for me) made the empowerment of the poor and the marginalized their priority. My hope was to situate the subject of the work I was making – at that time still a largely marginalized community - in the context of the Minjung political imperative.
In this work I was attempting to represent these children as faithfully as I could. It might be helpful to unpack my thinking “representation” a bit: Painting, particularly realistic / representational painting is frequently thought of / received in relation to the convention of “mastery”. That is, when one makes a realistic painting it might be understood as an artists’ claim of mastery and, implicitly, as their claim to an authority over the subject represented. I do not have any interest in that way of approaching painting. I am interested in painting that is a kind of conversation with the material used to make it (as opposed to painting as about control or domination of the material). No less importantly, I’m interested in painting as a regarding of the subject in humility: an attempt to represent the subject as honestly, accurately and respectfully as possible. Put another way: painting for me is learning how to make this painting in relation to trying to understand and represent this subject.
Taking that word representation a bit further: it is of course a reasonable question to ask whether one has the right to represent (make or take a picture of) another person – particularly someone who is not able to give consent. And it is reasonable to question whether I – even as the parent of a member of that community and trusted by the staff of that community – have the right to represent the students. But no less important is the other side of this question: the right of each person to be represented (both literally, in the sense of being pictured, and - via metaphoric implication - politically). In the case of this particular population and the particular context in which these paintings were being shown my intention was to make and show these representational paintings of these children as a claim to their right (authority) to be represented: Particularly towards the goal of advocating the presence of members of this population as they existed in that country at that time.
Taken for the Active Assignment Weekly! group. This week's assignment: Food Glorious Food
In between the annual stuffing process around Christmas I had short flashes of realizing how fortunate I am and how many people worldwide are not. I just googled that every eigth person on this planet does still not get enough to eat.
I am still somewhat optimistic that on the long run mankind will figure out a way that everybody has enough to eat. Until then all you can do is support programs that at least try to even the global food disbalance a little bit.
What it took:I had this idea of setting up a festive plate and then only fill it with a small hand full of rice. For the lighting I went with my 580 EX II and the Flexidome and fired it from all four directions in a low angle at 1/16th. This resulted in making the rice really pop from the dish.
/ zenshi / HUnger Games
Sept 8, 130pm maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Zenshi%20South/152/146/27
For Toy Sunday Theme: Extreme Sports
This idea came to me when I heard my granddaughter, Eleanor, singing this verse she wrote:
I blew up the force field
I am lost in the confusion
Currently my home is District 13
Bad things are happening
In Chapter Twelve
Now Watch Out
now NOW N O W
Cuz WAR is coming DOWN
Peeta, Katniss, Rue played by Lalaloopsies
Force field: by Food Service Wrap
Cave cannon: by Playmobil
Weapons, back packs: Playmobil, Furryville
Our nation plays....does yours???
is the name of the dance. It was created some years ago for the children of Biafra but sadly is still a contemporary issue. A professional dancer performing today in Dunedin about a mother watching her child starve and die. Makes me realise I don't do enough to help those in need :(
My thoughts this Sunday.
I realized I've been leaving the boys out of my pictures so I'm going to start taking more pictures of my male dolls. I don't think I have a good picture of Will, so here it is.
A malnourished young child in South Sudan cries in hunger while his grandmother futilely tries to console him. Hopefully, they made it to the hospital before it is too late.