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What is there for us to see?
Maybe nothing maybe all.
But when I change my
Point of view, I change my perceptions
And what I see than is new.
So maybe, we can feel this change in
Todays vibes. In the air.
So do we hide behind our masks and
Say it will all be the same?
Or do we move on with fresh perceptive?
Taken from outside a dolphin pen in the Honduras. These dolphins were communicative, playful, powerfully agile, smooth, gracious, perceptive and strong. Their entrapment in the murky shallow water of their pen was disturbing. Free dolphins often come to check in with them when they pass by on their way to the crystal clear and endless space of the ocean. (I like the term "dolphin slavery" that someone used in a comment)
When we think of a good photo in general we come to mind the photograph of a master whom we appreciate because we have studied it, it has become familiar and therefore welcoming, even when it appears unattainable.A mental operation that commits us to research into the archive that we hold in our memory and that requires an effort aimed at remembering that image. I sometimes ask my students to remember a photograph they particularly like, to try to describe it to me as much as possible, explaining to me how many more details come to mind.It is a very useful mental path that leads those who are remembering the image to understand better not so much about photography, but rather about themselves and what they consider important in a photographic image. The cognitive aspect that leads us to be attracted to certain photographs and, before that, to certain visual messages is the basis of what we will be as photographers and what we will be led to tell.Moreover, this mental exercise is useful for training the brain in that fundamental task of reading an image, which will then become simpler when the photograph is physically under our eyes.Doing this, of these distracted times and volatile memories, becomes a gym for our perceptive ability.And it will be very useful, at a later stage, as the creator of images, becoming, in fact, a precious tool in our photographic approach.The question to be asked is: what do we want from our photographing? Do we want it to be art, document or what? Do we want to use it just to stay healthy? Do we want to do it to communicate something we have inside and feel we deserve to be shown to others? Depending on the answers we
will give, we will have a clearer picture of the situation, and perhaps we will actually be starting to listen to our inner voice, the one that allows us to express what WE have to say.I both as a teacher and as a content proposer, both as a writer and as a photographer, I believe that photography and words walk together and the more we know how to use one and the other and the more we will be able to create interesting content. No, I'm not talking about using descriptions or titles to give strength to an image, but when we aspire to express concepts through our images, we will also need to know how to describe and talk over our photography. Just think of a synopsis of a photographic project. When we are already projected towards a photographic project the only images will not suffice.And this even with the awareness that the act of photographing leads to sensations that often cannot be described with words, in this sense a metaphysical component comes into play, linked to atmospheres and perceptions, for example certain intimate childhood memories, something we cannot or cannot grasp with words, but remains suspended inside us, hidden within us, real but impalpable.The ambiguity of photography is part of his magic.It surprises his own author.The more we focus on conceptuality, the more indispensable the word will be. And the word, which goes neither dodged nor disgusted, is today a saving oasis, which dissociates us from the oppression of non-thought, from shooting and not thinking, from that extreme aestheticism that conditions, impoverishes and consumes shared photography today on the net, flattening it into the banality of homologation, of visual homogenization, of easy consent. Unfortunately, fewer and fewer people are reading, let alone wanting to read about photographs.When a photographer rewards us with a long explanation, with a wise essay of the path that led him to a certain work not only highlights the research carried out and the knowledge of the proposed theme, but actually acts by digging into deeper channels, and this indicates respect in that particular relationship that is established between author and user.The most outstanding authors of each art have been and are distinguished people, capable of engaging in interesting discussions in many fields. I'm sorry but for this reason I can't and I don't want to believe the ignorant and mute photographer, the one who has nothing to say if he can't do it through his photos.Henri Cartier-Bresson, Stephen Shore, Carmelo Bene, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Paolo Villaggio, the first names coming to my mind, names of artists that went beyond their specialization and that show how much culture, knowledge and well-speaking leads the author towards a different dimension, much more stimulating, multifaceted, innovative.At this point, perhaps, we can understand how improvised photography that arrives proposed by those who do not have certain processing abilities remains mediocre, without a future, comparable to a crust in a neighborhood market.Today more than ever we must expect that there is substance behind photographs. Or better yet, that there is someone who is not throwing things at random, but who shows knowledge and culture that allows him to go beyond the aesthetic result.Thoughts out of this time and this space, on a hot Mexican afternoon.Alex Coghe, Mexico June 2019 - © All Rights Reserved
Other texts and inspiration on: www.alexcoghe.com
Beyond A Shadow Of... Doubtless A Man & Two German Shepherd Dogs - IMRAN™
I sometimes go bike riding late at night, with Kennedy and K2, my German Shepherd dog and puppy respectively, running alongside on either side. They are on two leashes attached on both sides of the seat rod. Of course, I wear a helmet, and gloves, in case a random squirell sighting makes one of them take off to the side taking me down with them!
One night recently, as I was pulling into the garage to put the bike inside, I realized that the white LED floodlight in the driveways projected onto the white wall of the garage a silhouette of me holding the bike and the dogs sitting on either side. They are so perceptive. Even from their silhouettes you can see that they are both literally looking at the wall knowing that there is something there I am looking at -- even though it is the same wall they are used to seeing and there is nothing unusual going on.
I just thought it would make an interesting and unique truly black and white photo. You can see a cement block standing next to the wall, giving a surreal touch of real world to an ethereal world of what is nothing but shadows. But the shadow knows, beyond a shadow of doubtless.... a man and two German Shepherd Dogs!
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So many thanks to Mike Kishii for providing the sublime and highly perceptive title!
An image of Sheffield and Rotherham canal with some Photoshop manipulation. Canon EOS 5 film.
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A little hole in a piece of paper and a minimalist sketch, I took the photo this afternoon.
One world meeting another, imagination versus the blurred and strange reality.
I was sort of inspired by Plato's "Allegory of the Cave": Plato imagines a group of people who have lived chained in a cave all of their lives, facing a blank wall. The people watch shadows projected on the wall by things passing in front of a fire behind them, and begin to ascribe forms to these shadows. According to Plato, the shadows are as close as the prisoners get to seeing reality. He then explains how the philosopher is like a prisoner who is freed from the cave and comes to understand that the shadows on the wall are not constitutive of reality at all, as he can perceive the true form of reality rather than the mere shadows seen by the prisoners.
The Allegory is related to Plato's Theory of Forms, wherein Plato asserts that "Forms" (or "Ideas"), and not the material world of change known to us through sensation, possess the highest and most fundamental kind of reality. Only knowledge of the Forms constitutes real knowledge. In addition, the allegory of the cave is an attempt to explain the philosopher's place in society.
The above photo has been shot with the Samsung NX10
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In Pencil Land
A poem by Katie Gabrielle
Just an ordinary day
In pencil land
A strange hole appears
And they blame it on the hand
"Oh it's that artist again!"
"He keeps teasing us and
Not sure which came first.
Did he draw us first, then
show us that color world?"
Are we real or is that real?
"Almost like Alice and
The looking glass, so
Why not just on through
Or go on past!"
The color world can be
Bright and true.
Better to be color
Than black and white.
Dreaming is fun for Alice
Life can be mighty boring
When you all look the same
But when you have some
Jazzy color you can
Blame the artist
So talk to the hand
In color land
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Dream Days
A poem by Peter S. Quinn
Dream days here on
Filling the moment's air
Reality is now gone
Only now dreams in here
Thru every dimension
Always for more and new
Perceptive comprehension
Whatever we come to do
Dream thru the reality
Nothing is now clear
Times are currently free
There’s no place or year
Only a dream in a dream
Moving in our evolution
We only in mirror seem
Like reflecting resolution
Dreams of our own deep
Inside an abysses space
Only the instances to keep
In playful of many ways
An apparition that is laid
Like desire in some mind
And we have called it fate
That has our life assigned
“Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.”
Osiris Toe Tip and Nail End Freshly Fallen from Isis’s Collection in Glasgow on a trip to a Parking Meter and Back NEVER ask please without recourse to an endless Stellar Shimmering Summer Night from Dusk to Dawn and Some Startling Stark Hours of Winter Solstice Celebration of Dawn to Dusk in a Cromlech, please unless as stipulated it is less traumatic to never ask.
There is an overdose of 11 pictures presented here. Few will see them all and fewer still read this description humbly exhorting you to see some pictures from each of the differing sections as detailed thusly,
2 Distinct Groupings distinctly discovery finely found to be 11 in Total.
5 Toe Pix, 1 in Much Millennia#d Mould-O-visioN.
6 Prettier Pix for your Perceptive Peepers Relief after Toe Trauma.
Of which 6 there being 4 Flowering Formations above The Toe and 2 Perfumery Pictorial Pix revealing the tiny magical elixir that may have triggered The Toe interaction so acting as below images in timeline and in causely effect.
These are not my usual sort of out spurting, well I think not and then I remember that there is some yes to answer along with the no and so also I state that these feature nicely in with some of my edited extravagances.
This both a normal day and as well at the same time not the normal that seems a life away til it returns.
© PHH Sykes 2025
phhsykes@gmail.com
“Photography has spiritual links with the end of the world.”
- Wim Wenders (film maker).
The title of my slideshow in 65 photographs is “Suburban Dreams”. When Freud wrote his seminal work on dreams he used the German word for dream – traum. I needn’t tell you what this means for English speakers. The difference between a dream and a nightmare is more a matter of who is experiencing it. A rich man’s dream may well be the result of a poor man’s nightmare.
At the heart of everything human is a fundamental trauma. Becker described this with his theory that the ego is always seeking to find ways to express the “denial of death”. So we build our personal Towers of Babel. And we know what happened in that story.
We can get the gist of what Wim Wenders meant with his aphorism that photography has spiritual links with the end of the world. At one level photography exists to capture moments in time that are always passing away. The photographs I show you here present suburbs in a state of perpetual decay. All things must pass, George Harrison sang. No doubt about it. So this view sees the Photographer as Mortician. There’s a lot of that in William Eggleston’s work. Indeed Eggleston’s most famous photograph of the blood red room turned out to be prophetic. There was indeed a murder committed in that space a few years later (cue Twilight Zone music).
But like everything this is only half the story. The father of Process Philosophy, A.N. Whitehead, also believed that time consisted of moments that are inexorably passing away. BUT most importantly, these moments pass away ONLY so that they can give birth to new ones. The essence of existence is not death, but in fact revealed in the Will to Life.
This point is picked up on by that perceptive photographer/ philosopher Luigi Ghirri. As far as he was concerned the real role of photography is to take up from where the Mortician Photographer leaves us and re-create new possibilities (the Greek word for this is ανάσταση – resurrection). We certainly need documentary photographers who show us a suffering world that is passing away, but ONLY if we can see the “apparition” (Ghirri’s word apparizione in Italian) that lies within that moment: “Taking photographs is above all restoring a sense of wonder…And so we look first into the world itself, and then at the plate, and then into the final image, to discover the wonder of the gesture that had been achieved, to consider nothing insignificant, and to see in landscape, in a point in space, in a moment of life, or in a slight change of light, the possibility of a new perception.” *
I hope you will see that my choice of Coldplay’s profound song “Coloratura” from the album Music of the Spheres captures something of the spirit of this place I show in my photographs. Photograph 01 of the crescent moon in the clouds begins here:
“Coloratura, we fell in through the clouds, and everyone before us is there, welcoming us now. It’s the end of death and doubt, and loneliness is out.”
Our suburban dreams may well be founded on the desire to push aside our doubts and fears in “this crazy world” driven by consumerism and ego, and find neighbourly companionship though fleeting. But our dreams also mask a trauma in society that will either drive us apart from each other, or brings us together in love. I hope we choose the latter.
That is certainly the image I want to leave you with in Photograph 65 (“All the satellites imbue. In this crazy world I do, I just want you.”).
“In the end it’s all about the love you’re sending out.”
* Luigi Ghirri, The Complete Essays 1973-1991 (MACK, 2021) p 186.
The more perceptive among you may have noticed an abundance of overgrown brush in viewing the Vandenberg Air Force base property overlooking our home.
As a native Californian I've grown up fearing fire - luckily so far so good.....
I've been tagged too!
Thanks to miele♥nel♥caffè, whom I met in Bologna a couple of months ago(!), I will now have to come up with 10 things about myself. Easier said...? Let's see!
1. I live in Oxford, UK, (I'd love to say with my three cats but I don't have any. Bugger!). I'm from Greece (don't ask me why I gave up on sun, sea, food... Your question shall not receive an answer).
2. I have lived in the following towns/cities: Katerini, Thessaloniki, Athens, Cologne, Nottingham, London, Oxford.
3. My dream, as a child, was to become a vet. The reason: I love cats. Male cats in particular. Because they are thick (as in stupid) and ridiculously cuddly. Back to the vet dream... Something must have happened along the way because I ended up studying psychology. I am a business psychologist now. But I am convinced it was an excellent choice. And I'm not that far off either... I believe in evolution and that people are not that different from animals (we still make love, fight to death, eat, drink and die).
4. I love black. It is most definitely my (not a) colour :-)
5. As a child I loved creating my own world and living in it. I was forced out of it because it was not considered 'healthy' by my parents. They thought their child would end up a fruitcake. I was totally happy to leave my world only for special people, who meant a lot to me. However, moving out of my old neighbourhood meant that I had to give up on them. The rest is history and I'm not a fruitcake. I promise!
6. People think I go analysing everything and everyone, because I'm a psychologist. How untrue.
7. I am an INFJ. The only reason I'm sharing, it perfectly describes who I am:
INFJs are conscientious and value-driven. They seek meaning in relationships, ideas, and events, with an eye toward better understanding themselves and others. Using their intuitive skills, they develop a clear vision, which they then execute decisively to better the lives of others. Like their INTJ counterparts, INFJs regard problems as opportunities to design and implement creative solutions.[14]
INFJs are quiet, private individuals who prefer to exercise their influence behind the scenes. Although very independent, INFJs are intensely interested in the well-being of others. INFJs prefer one-on-one relationships to large groups. Sensitive and complex, they are adept at understanding complicated issues and driven to resolve differences in a cooperative and creative manner. [3]
INFJs have a rich, vivid inner life, which they may be reluctant to share with those around them. Nevertheless, they are congenial in their interactions, and perceptive of the emotions of others. Generally well-liked by their peers, they may often be considered close friends and confidants by most other types. However, they are guarded in expressing their own feelings, especially to new people, and so tend to establish close relationships slowly. INFJs tend to be easily hurt, though they may not reveal this except to their closest companions. INFJs may "silently withdraw as a way of setting limits," rather than expressing their wounded feelings—a behavior that may leave others confused and upset.[15]
INFJs tend to be sensitive, quiet leaders with a great depth of personality. They are intricately and deeply woven, mysterious, and highly complex, sometimes puzzling even to themselves. They have an orderly view toward the world, but are internally arranged in a complex way that only they can understand. Abstract in communicating, they live in a world of hidden meanings and possibilities. With a natural affinity for art, INFJs tend to be creative and easily inspired.[16] Yet they may also do well in the sciences, aided by their intuition.[17]
8. I love jazz and music based on improvisation.
9. I love my mates to pieces. I'm so-so-so sorry that I won't be able to join them on a trip to Egypt in Spring but I've got good reasons (I beg for forgiveness!)
10. I believe in 'right place right time'. Sorry Vittoria (miele nel caffe) but I don't believe in 'love of my life'. There are so many beautiful people (I don't mean physical appearance) out there. And after all, beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
11 (Sorry!). Talking about special people, someone special came into my life a couple of days ago ;-)
The end
Part of an environmental awareness activity for kids at the Queensland Gallery of Modern Art called Below the Tide Line. This is just a pile of rolled up colour paper for the kids to extract and draw their thoughts upon. As usual some of the artwork and thought was very perceptive and excellent and concentrated one’s thoughts on how worried kids are about the future we are handing them.
Queensland Gallery of Modern Art, South Brisbane, Queensland.
Nikon full frame 24-120mm, f4, 1/125.
I think I want to put this cabin with the canoe on my amazon wishlist.
Textures by Lenabem-Anna and myself.
MICROBIA #3, subtitled; "CRUSTACEAPODS"
24" x 24" (61 cm x 61 cm) Acrylic on Canvas, Completed Oct. 2008
This is third in a series which includes MICROBIA #1 (BLUE) www.vomitus.com/museum/NewVmmPages/BlueMicrobia_vmm.html ... and MICROBIA #2, (RED) www.vomitus.com/museum/NewVmmPages/RedMicrobia_vmm.html
This painting is a good example of my fascination with tiny primitive sea forms. (Real and imaginary)
With each painting I get a little closer to feeling satisfied with my work. After many experiments, and many derivatively influenced works, (influenced by the artists I admire) I have come to two (2) distinct styles that most dominate my paintings.
This painting is the type "A" painting I "escape" into. Thus, I suppose it is "escapist art", at least for me it is. I find the subjects challenging mostly in technical ways. The color, the placement of forms, the illusion of depth and transparency. These challenges keep my mind engaged during the process. There are a few references to things "unrelaxing", such as the machine fetuses in the spheres, and the food chain scenarios. However, the subject matter of the piece is purposely not provocative.
My other painting style, (I'll call it type "B") acts as a catharsis for my feelings of anxiety, fear, anger, etc. Usually these paintings concern the state of the world, and more particularly the state of my world. The cruelty, ignorance, foolishness and evil that obsesses and plagues me. Also, my dread of death and growing anxiety over life's briefness.
When I'm not escaping into my personal dream world, I'm thinking of the huge evil that shrouds our existence. War, crime, hunger, hate, violence and death. These things should not be ignored, but more than not, they are. Who's responsibility is it, if not an artists, to portray these in the unique venue available to him?
At this point in the evolution of my painting, I wonder what road I will take. Will my escapist fascinations take over? If so, will I always feel that I have betrayed my true perceptiveness, to feel safe with my "pretty pictures"? Or will my more substantive style take over, allowing me to express important feelings and ideas, yet salving me not?
Must I have only one focus for my work? I will try to allow my work to find it's own level.
RS ~ 10/17/2008
This earnest and very engaging Brahmin sannyasi (renunciate) was sitting next to the snake charmer in the previous photo. He happened to speak great English, as do most more educated people in India. He graciously allowed me to snap a few shots during our animated conversation. I could've talked with this gentleman for the rest of the afternoon, as he was extremely thoughtful and delightfully provocative! However, getting close to my day of departure from Varanasi, before the light got too low I bid farewell to continue on with my street portraiture adventure in this remarkable city.
Thank you so much everyone for your views, kind comments and faves! I really appreciate them! Be well and happy shooting!
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Osiris Toe Tip and Nail End Freshly Fallen from Isis’s Collection in Glasgow on a trip to a Parking Meter and Back NEVER ask please without recourse to an endless Stellar Shimmering Summer Night from Dusk to Dawn and Some Startling Stark Hours of Winter Solstice Celebration of Dawn to Dusk in a Cromlech, please unless as stipulated it is less traumatic to never ask.
There is an overdose of 11 pictures presented here. Few will see them all and fewer still read this description humbly exhorting you to see some pictures from each of the differing sections as detailed thusly,
2 Distinct Groupings distinctly discovery finely found to be 11 in Total.
5 Toe Pix, 1 in Much Millennia#d Mould-O-visioN.
6 Prettier Pix for your Perceptive Peepers Relief after Toe Trauma.
Of which 6 there being 4 Flowering Formations above The Toe and 2 Perfumery Pictorial Pix revealing the tiny magical elixir that may have triggered The Toe interaction so acting as below images in timeline and in causely effect.
These are not my usual sort of out spurting, well I think not and then I remember that there is some yes to answer along with the no and so also I state that these feature nicely in with some of my edited extravagances.
This both a normal day and as well at the same time not the normal that seems a life away til it returns.
© PHH Sykes 2025
phhsykes@gmail.com
"People" pics continues with another shot of Pam. Same as yesterday, this is a black and white conversion from an old Kodachrome slide (ISO 64).
I realized while compiling the images for this set that what I am most interested in is the "ordinary moment"... when nothing special may be happening, other than regular real life. Which itself is an amazing adventure, but one we often minimize while waiting for the next peak moment. The big game... the great concert... the tropical vacation... climbing that mountain... skydiving.....
Most of our lives happen in and around those events, and to be in the moment is to appreciate and experience the "ordinary" as something extraordinary. For example, the beauty of this woman as she sips her coffee by window light. In my present life, 43 years later, it may be a simple sunrise, or a grasshopper on one of my garden flowers (which I was photographing half an hour ago), or merely the play of light and shadow across a hillside.
The great depression-era photographer, Dorothea Lange, said, "The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera." That is the key. Learn to see the world for what it is - miraculous - and you will never lack ideas for photographs. That means learning to see past the ordinary, beyond the obvious, into the zone of deep perceptiveness from which springs the world's great art. I'm still learning this. It's never done until we're done!
Photographed in Vancouer, BC (Canada); scanned from the original Kodachrome 64 slide. Don't use this image on websites, blogs, or other media without explicit permission ©1981 James R. Page - all rights reserved.
Self-portrait
(May 23rd, 2019)
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX, U.S.A
I planned to see "Dior From Paris To the World" exhibition as well as "Berhe Morisot, Woman Impressionist" at the Dallas Museum of Art a while ago, and last Thursday was a great opportunity to see both with the same ticket for special exhibitions.
The only issue was that the ticket was timed to avoid crowds, so I had to show up exactly at 6 PM to be allowed to enter "Dior". In the line, after checking, I asked whether I could see first the 70 impressionist paintings of Morisot instead of almost 200 haute-couture dresses of Dior because it would correspond better to my perceptive capacity (usually, I'm not able to experience more than one exhibition at a time, and I thought I'd need internal peace to admire the seminal impressionist brush strokes), but I was told that Dior was more important, and the ticket was timed, so I should go first see him, and then Morisot. I had a little argument trying to explain that I would like to decide myself what was more important to me before they let me finally go.
I spent over 1,5 hours admiring the treatment of the modern figure through the paintings of Morisot. There were just a few other people at the exhibition. I was unbothered by crowds; my eyes and soul were so ready to contemplate the ephemeral beauty of the 19th Centuary women portrayed with grace by Morisot. It felt so good. It made me dream.
There wasn't much time left to see Dior after as the museum closes at 9 PM on Thursdays, but the same man I argued with earlier about my timed ticket let me in, so I could get an idea of what that famous revolutionary celebration of femminity in Dior designs was after World War II when it emerged in Paris. Surprisingly, I wasn't that attracted to haute-couture dresses at all except for one long pleated crepe Georgette dress that cought my eye from collaboration with Gianfranco Ferre: Palladio, Haute-Couture Spring-Summer 1992 from Balmy Summer Breezes collection. I was much more enchanted by legendary photographs and sketches.
I took this self-portrait in the main exhibition long hall called "Ladies in Dior" where you could see all the famous dresses worn by famous women. The line was so long, it was so crowded, and I was the least interested in those, so I had really great time shooting my reflected self-portraits. I might be sharing two more from this place.
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About the project:
I wish to look at myself in all reflected streets and places I will be passing by. These self-portraits are inspired by Vivian Maier's self-portraiture: www.vivianmaier.com
Simply look with perceptive eyes at the world about you, and trust to your own reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: "Does this subject move me to feel, think and dream? Can I visualize a print - my own personal statement of what I feel and want to convey - from the subject before me? - Ansel Adams, The Best of Popular Photography by Harvey V. Fondiller , ISBN: 0871650371 , Page: 280
My son's rowing club went back on the water a couple of weeks ago, but on solo boats only. There he is with two other kids and an instructor. The kids are not displeased by that spurt of independence. And whoever designed the European Central Bank building... dude! Every picture it's on gives me headaches on getting perceptive and horizon right.
Thank you everyone for your visits, faves and comments, they are always appreciated :)
Moon in PiscesPisces:
Moon in Pisces has the greatest sensitivity and perceptiveness of surroundings. You can experience feelings of insecurity, be passive and only wait and see what happens in your life. If you engage in creative or spiritual search, you will benefit from great imagination of Pisces.
Organs influenced by PiscesPisces Moon Sign:
Organs: Feet, toes, hypophysis, pineal gland, endorphin, melatonin.
These organs are now more sensitive so provide them with extra care.
Surgical operations:
Surgical operations are not recommended during the Waxing Moon.
while the other is a perceptive illusion. Choose wisely at each fork in the road :-)
― T.F. Hodge
best wishes to one and all for a wonderful holiday season, take care my friends :-)
hybrid camellia, 'Christmas Rose', sarah p duke gardens, duke university, durham, north carolina
I posted this picture (the thumbnail image in the video) 14 years ago. It took me 4 years on Flickr to post anything like this, it is still in my photostream. I just brought it to life with AI. I’ve learned some interesting things about how perceptive AI can be about online pictures, which I will share in some future post.
...and you'll know the name of this station. And it works the same at every station on this stretch of the Düsseldorf metro, their original line linking the central station with the old town and then further on across the Rhine or to the North. There's seven or eight stations along this line, and they're all styled exactly the same way. That certainly helps to make maintenance more efficient, but it's also a bit of a blunder in terms of accessibility. What if someone's eyes aren't very good? Sure, there's acoustic announcements, but those can fail or get drowned out in the noise on a crowded train. And what if someone's from abroad and isn't familiar with the language?
If you look at some of the older metro stations of the world - London or New York come to mind, you'll notice that no two stations will have exactly the same tile patterns and mosaics on the walls. And that was not just done for looking prettier or more interesting, not just because they could. When these structures were built, literacy was less widespread than it is today. As was the assumption that everybody in these cities just so happened to speak English. And that's where the design of the stations themselves came in. Memorize your station has a stripe of alternating green and yellow tiles, interrupted by red vertical double lines, and you'll know where to get off to get home.
Apart from orientation, perhaps that also says something about the way people looked at their world back then. They were just more perceptive, I suppose. Maybe that's also the reason nobody puts beautiful ornaments and stucco anymore on buildings. People don't look up from their smartphones anyway, so why bother.
signs placards advertisements
permeate the cities with messages that seem in deep contrast with the reality of being poor and staying poor .
the 500 million living in poverty
have the brains
really and truly
some of those i talk to are perceptive astute abstract in their thinking and understand deep concepts
but have no chance at what a WESTERNER does.
Wasted minds............a sad statement of the worlds reality
With so much opportunity many Westerners waste their minds too no doubt!
living on the street in
KOLKATA
new Market
collecting garbage
Photography’s new conscience
On my first exploration of the Drake Trail towards the open moor, I came across a co-operative horse crying out to make a foreground. You can just see Shaugh Prior church in the b/g. I feel this is my best sketch of a horse so far.
Thanks for the perceptive and supportive comments - I'm trying to use my sketchbook as a replacement camera ... which requires training myself to sketch quickly enough to catch people or animals, because I'm not satisfied with being limited to still objects and landscapes ...
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Simply look with perceptive eyes at the world about you, and trust to your own reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: "Does this subject move me to feel, think and dream? Can I visualize a print - my own personal statement of what I feel and want to convey - from the subject before me?"
-- Ansel Adams
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The angle of this photo gives you the perception that she is hiding, when in reality she just thinks the sheets are her personal bedding and not my laundry!
Netherlands, Gelderland, Arnhem, City centre, Hess Swisstroley bus (cut from T)
Shot inside an Arnhem trolleybus. Arnhem is the only city in Holland which uses them. They are operated by Breng a brand of Hermes/Connexxion.
By the way, I love the growing diversity of lighting sources in the public space and public facilities that's brought on by the rise of LED illumination, digital cameras respond really well to it ;-)
This is the start of a new Arnhem series which will feature: the house that shelters wolves and cars, a giant festive Aardvark with a golden pointed hat, Mnsr Hulot at V&D, the dashing Rozet building, the Arnhem Rhine armada, Russian protest culture at the Arnhem Museum and of course low light Arhem Centraal.
The soundtrack : The Who: Magic bus
I will continue the Magic circus mini series after the Arnhem one - thanxalot for your appreciative and perceptive comments!
Walking around Llyn Idwal with my wife some 100 meters ahead, I was loitering, taking pictures. She spied these falls and decided it was time for a stop. Such a perceptive woman.....
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I don't have the amazing eyes it is Andrew my son in law who is so perceptive. This mantis also lives on the origanum. I have had a similar one on my site before but this is a new one taken just a couple of hours ago. For those of you who are baffled - this really is a little praying mantis with a wonderful ability to camouflage itself like a flower.
At Monal Guest House in 2019, we met an amazing family traveling through India. This daughter of theirs was engaging, fun, lively, kind, and full of life. Talking with this inspiring young lady was a joy! Google Pixel 2 Pic. Didn't have my Canon on me :)!!
Interestingly, both of the Boston area Banksy pieces are on Essex St:
• F̶O̶L̶L̶O̶W̶ ̶Y̶O̶U̶R̶ ̶D̶R̶E̶A̶M̶S̶ CANCELLED (aka chimney sweep) in Chinatown, Boston
• NO LOITRIN in Central Square, Cambridge.
Does that mean anything? It looks like he favors Essex named streets & roads when he can. In 2008, he did another notable Essex work in London, for example, and posters on the Banksy Forums picked up & discussed on the Essex link as well.
Is there an Essex Street in any of the other nearby towns? It looks like there are several: Brookline, Charlestown, Chelsea, Gloucester, Haverhill, Lawrence, Lynn, Medford, Melrose, Quincy, Revere, Salem, Saugus, Somerville, Swampscott, and Waltham. Most of these seem improbable to me, other than maybe Brookline, or maybe Somerville or Charlestown. But they start getting pretty suburban after that.
But, again, why "Essex"? In a comment on this photo, Birbeck helps clarify:
I can only surmise that he's having a 'dig' at Essex UK, especially with the misspelling of 'Loitering'. Here, the general view of the urban districts in Essex: working class but with right wing views; that they're not the most intellectual bunch; rather obsessed with fashion (well, their idea of it); their place of worship is the shopping mall; enjoy rowdy nights out; girls are thought of as being dumb, fake blonde hair/tans and promiscuous; and guys are good at the 'chit chat', and swagger around showing off their dosh (money).
It was also the region that once had Europe's largest Ford motor factory. In its heyday, 1 in 3 British cars were made in Dagenham, Essex. Pay was good for such unskilled labour, generations worked mind-numbing routines on assembly lines for 80 years. In 2002 the recession ended the dream.
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Banksy
• Birth name
Unknown
• Born
1974 or 1975 (1974 or 1975), Bristol, UK[1]
• Nationality
• Field
• Movement
Anti-Totalitarianism
Anti-War
• Works
Naked Man Image
One Nation Under CCTV
Anarchist Rat
Ozone's Angel
Pulp Fiction
Banksy is a pseudonymous[2][3][4] British graffiti artist. He is believed to be a native of Yate, South Gloucestershire, near Bristol[2] and to have been born in 1974,[5] but his identity is unknown.[6] According to Tristan Manco[who?], Banksy "was born in 1974 and raised in Bristol, England. The son of a photocopier technician, he trained as a butcher but became involved in graffiti during the great Bristol aerosol boom of the late 1980s."[7] His artworks are often satirical pieces of art on topics such as politics, culture, and ethics. His street art, which combines graffiti writing with a distinctive stencilling technique, is similar to Blek le Rat, who began to work with stencils in 1981 in Paris and members of the anarcho-punk band Crass who maintained a graffiti stencil campaign on the London Tube System in the late 1970s and early 1980s. His art has appeared in cities around the world.[8] Banksy's work was born out of the Bristol underground scene which involved collaborations between artists and musicians.
Banksy does not sell photos of street graffiti.[9] Art auctioneers have been known to attempt to sell his street art on location and leave the problem of its removal in the hands of the winning bidder.[10]
Banksy's first film, Exit Through The Gift Shop, billed as "the world's first street art disaster movie", made its debut at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival.[11] The film was released in the UK on March 5.[12]
Contents
• 1 Career
•• 1.1 2000
•• 1.2 2002
•• 1.3 2003
•• 1.4 2004
•• 1.5 2005
•• 1.6 2006
•• 1.7 2007
•• 1.8 2008
•• 1.9 2009
•• 1.10 2010
Career
Banksy started as a freehand graffiti artist 1992–1994[14] as one of Bristol's DryBreadZ Crew (DBZ), with Kato and Tes.[15] He was inspired by local artists and his work was part of the larger Bristol underground scene. From the start he used stencils as elements of his freehand pieces, too.[14] By 2000 he had turned to the art of stencilling after realising how much less time it took to complete a piece. He claims he changed to stencilling whilst he was hiding from the police under a train carriage, when he noticed the stencilled serial number[16] and by employing this technique, he soon became more widely noticed for his art around Bristol and London.[16]
Stencil on the waterline of The Thekla, an entertainment boat in central Bristol - (wider view). The image of Death is based on a 19th century etching illustrating the pestilence of The Great Stink.[17]
Banksy's stencils feature striking and humorous images occasionally combined with slogans. The message is usually anti-war, anti-capitalist or anti-establishment. Subjects often include rats, monkeys, policemen, soldiers, children, and the elderly.
In late 2001, on a trip to Sydney and Melbourne, Australia, he met up with the Gen-X pastellist, visual activist, and recluse James DeWeaver in Byron Bay[clarification needed], where he stencilled a parachuting rat with a clothes peg on its nose above a toilet at the Arts Factory Lodge. This stencil can no longer be located. He also makes stickers (the Neighbourhood Watch subvert) and sculpture (the murdered phone-box), and was responsible for the cover art of Blur's 2003 album Think Tank.
2000
The album cover for Monk & Canatella's Do Community Service was conceived and illustrated by Banksy, based on his contribution to the "Walls on fire" event in Bristol 1998.[18][citation needed]
2002
On 19 July 2002, Banksy's first Los Angeles exhibition debuted at 33 1/3 Gallery, a small Silverlake venue owned by Frank Sosa. The exhibition, entitled Existencilism, was curated by 33 1/3 Gallery, Malathion, Funk Lazy Promotions, and B+.[19]
2003
In 2003 in an exhibition called Turf War, held in a warehouse, Banksy painted on animals. Although the RSPCA declared the conditions suitable, an animal rights activist chained herself to the railings in protest.[20] He later moved on to producing subverted paintings; one example is Monet's Water Lily Pond, adapted to include urban detritus such as litter and a shopping trolley floating in its reflective waters; another is Edward Hopper's Nighthawks, redrawn to show that the characters are looking at a British football hooligan, dressed only in his Union Flag underpants, who has just thrown an object through the glass window of the cafe. These oil paintings were shown at a twelve-day exhibition in Westbourne Grove, London in 2005.[21]
2004
In August 2004, Banksy produced a quantity of spoof British £10 notes substituting the picture of the Queen's head with Princess Diana's head and changing the text "Bank of England" to "Banksy of England." Someone threw a large wad of these into a crowd at Notting Hill Carnival that year, which some recipients then tried to spend in local shops. These notes were also given with invitations to a Santa's Ghetto exhibition by Pictures on Walls. The individual notes have since been selling on eBay for about £200 each. A wad of the notes were also thrown over a fence and into the crowd near the NME signing tent at The Reading Festival. A limited run of 50 signed posters containing ten uncut notes were also produced and sold by Pictures on Walls for £100 each to commemorate the death of Princess Diana. One of these sold in October 2007 at Bonhams auction house in London for £24,000.
2005
In August 2005, Banksy, on a trip to the Palestinian territories, created nine images on Israel's highly controversial West Bank barrier. He reportedly said "The Israeli government is building a wall surrounding the occupied Palestinian territories. It stands three times the height of the Berlin Wall and will eventually run for over 700km—the distance from London to Zurich. "[22]
2006
• Banksy held an exhibition called Barely Legal, billed as a "three day vandalised warehouse extravaganza" in Los Angeles, on the weekend of 16 September. The exhibition featured a live "elephant in a room", painted in a pink and gold floral wallpaper pattern.[23]
• After Christina Aguilera bought an original of Queen Victoria as a lesbian and two prints for £25,000,[24] on 19 October 2006 a set of Kate Moss paintings sold in Sotheby's London for £50,400, setting an auction record for Banksy's work. The six silk-screen prints, featuring the model painted in the style of Andy Warhol's Marilyn Monroe pictures, sold for five times their estimated value. His stencil of a green Mona Lisa with real paint dripping from her eyes sold for £57,600 at the same auction.[25]
• In December, journalist Max Foster coined the phrase, "the Banksy Effect", to illustrate how interest in other street artists was growing on the back of Banksy's success.[26]
2007
• On 21 February 2007, Sotheby's auction house in London auctioned three works, reaching the highest ever price for a Banksy work at auction: over £102,000 for his Bombing Middle England. Two of his other graffiti works, Balloon Girl and Bomb Hugger, sold for £37,200 and £31,200 respectively, which were well above their estimated prices.[27] The following day's auction saw a further three Banksy works reach soaring prices: Ballerina With Action Man Parts reached £96,000; Glory sold for £72,000; Untitled (2004) sold for £33,600; all significantly above estimated values.[28] To coincide with the second day of auctions, Banksy updated his website with a new image of an auction house scene showing people bidding on a picture that said, "I Can't Believe You Morons Actually Buy This Shit."[6]
• In February 2007, the owners of a house with a Banksy mural on the side in Bristol decided to sell the house through Red Propeller art gallery after offers fell through because the prospective buyers wanted to remove the mural. It is listed as a mural which comes with a house attached.[29]
• In April 2007, Transport for London painted over Banksy's iconic image of a scene from Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction, with Samuel L. Jackson and John Travolta clutching bananas instead of guns. Although the image was very popular, Transport for London claimed that the "graffiti" created "a general atmosphere of neglect and social decay which in turn encourages crime" and their staff are "professional cleaners not professional art critics".[30] Banksy tagged the same site again (pictured at right). This time the actors were portrayed as holding real guns instead of bananas, but they were adorned with banana costumes. Banksy made a tribute art piece over this second Pulp Fiction piece. The tribute was for 19-year-old British graffiti artist Ozone, who was hit by an underground train in Barking, East London, along with fellow artist Wants, on 12 January 2007.[31] The piece was of an angel wearing a bullet-proof vest, holding a skull. He also wrote a note on his website, saying:
The last time I hit this spot I painted a crap picture of two men in banana costumes waving hand guns. A few weeks later a writer called Ozone completely dogged it and then wrote 'If it's better next time I'll leave it' in the bottom corner. When we lost Ozone we lost a fearless graffiti writer and as it turns out a pretty perceptive art critic. Ozone - rest in peace.[citation needed]
Ozone's Angel
• On 27 April 2007, a new record high for the sale of Banksy's work was set with the auction of the work Space Girl & Bird fetching £288,000 (US$576,000), around 20 times the estimate at Bonhams of London.[32]
• On 21 May 2007 Banksy gained the award for Art's Greatest living Briton. Banksy, as expected, did not turn up to collect his award, and continued with his notoriously anonymous status.
• On 4 June 2007, it was reported that Banksy's The Drinker had been stolen.[33][34]
• In October 2007, most of his works offered for sale at Bonhams auction house in London sold for more than twice their reserve price.[35]
• Banksy has published a "manifesto" on his website.[36] The text of the manifesto is credited as the diary entry of one Lieutenant Colonel Mervin Willett Gonin, DSO, which is exhibited in the Imperial War Museum. It describes how a shipment of lipstick to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp immediately after its liberation at the end of World War II helped the internees regain their humanity. However, as of 18 January 2008, Banksy's Manifesto has been substituted with Graffiti Heroes #03 that describes Peter Chappell's graffiti quest of the 1970s that worked to free George Davis of his imprisonment.[37] By 12 August 2009 he was relying on Emo Phillips' "When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised God doesn’t work that way, so I stole one and prayed for forgiveness."
• A small number of Banksy's works can be seen in the movie Children of Men, including a stenciled image of two policemen kissing and another stencil of a child looking down a shop.
• In the 2007 film Shoot 'Em Up starring Clive Owen, Banksy's tag can be seen on a dumpster in the film's credits.
• Banksy, who deals mostly with Lazarides Gallery in London, claims that the exhibition at Vanina Holasek Gallery in New York (his first major exhibition in that city) is unauthorised. The exhibition featured 62 of his paintings and prints.[38]
2008
• In March, a stencilled graffiti work appeared on Thames Water tower in the middle of the Holland Park roundabout, and it was widely attributed to Banksy. It was of a child painting the tag "Take this Society" in bright orange. London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham spokesman, Councillor Greg Smith branded the art as vandalism, and ordered its immediate removal, which was carried out by H&F council workmen within three days.[39]
• Over the weekend 3–5 May in London, Banksy hosted an exhibition called The Cans Festival. It was situated on Leake Street, a road tunnel formerly used by Eurostar underneath London Waterloo station. Graffiti artists with stencils were invited to join in and paint their own artwork, as long as it didn't cover anyone else's.[40] Artists included Blek le Rat, Broken Crow, C215, Cartrain, Dolk, Dotmasters, J.Glover, Eine, Eelus, Hero, Pure evil, Jef Aérosol, Mr Brainwash, Tom Civil and Roadsworth.[citation needed]
• In late August 2008, marking the third anniversary of Hurricane Katrina and the associated levee failure disaster, Banksy produced a series of works in New Orleans, Louisiana, mostly on buildings derelict since the disaster.[41]
• A stencil painting attributed to Banksy appeared at a vacant petrol station in the Ensley neighbourhood of Birmingham, Alabama on 29 August as Hurricane Gustav approached the New Orleans area. The painting depicting a hooded member of the Ku Klux Klan hanging from a noose was quickly covered with black spray paint and later removed altogether.[42]
• His first official exhibition in New York, the "Village Pet Store And Charcoal Grill," opened 5 October 2008. The animatronic pets in the store window include a mother hen watching over her baby Chicken McNuggets as they peck at a barbecue sauce packet, and a rabbit putting makeup on in a mirror.[43]
• The Westminster City Council stated in October 2008 that the work "One Nation Under CCTV", painted in April 2008 will be painted over as it is graffiti. The council says it will remove any graffiti, regardless of the reputation of its creator, and specifically stated that Banksy "has no more right to paint graffiti than a child". Robert Davis, the chairman of the council planning committee told The Times newspaper: "If we condone this then we might as well say that any kid with a spray can is producing art". [44] The work was painted over in April 2009.
• In December 2008, The Little Diver, a Banksy image of a diver in a duffle coat in Melbourne Australia was vandalised. The image was protected by a sheet of clear perspex, however silver paint was poured behind the protective sheet and later tagged with the words "Banksy woz ere". The image was almost completely destroyed.[45].
2009
• May 2009, parts company with agent Steve Lazarides. Announces Pest Control [46] the handling service who act on his behalf will be the only point of sale for new works.
• On 13 June 2009, the Banksy UK Summer show opened at Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery, featuring more than 100 works of art, including animatronics and installations; it is his largest exhibition yet, featuring 78 new works.[47][48] Reaction to the show was positive, with over 8,500 visitors to the show on the first weekend.[49] Over the course of the twelve weeks, the exhibition has been visited over 300,000 times.[50]
• In September 2009, a Banksy work parodying the Royal Family was partially destroyed by Hackney Council after they served an enforcement notice for graffiti removal to the former address of the property owner. The mural had been commissioned for the 2003 Blur single "Crazy Beat" and the property owner, who had allowed the piece to be painted, was reported to have been in tears when she saw it was being painted over.[51]
• In December 2009, Banksy marked the end of the 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference by painting four murals on global warming. One included "I don't believe in global warming" which was submerged in water.[52]
2010
• The world premiere of the film Exit Through the Gift Shop occurred at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, on 24 January. He created 10 street pieces around Park City and Salt Lake City to tie in with the screening.[53]
• In February, The Whitehouse public house in Liverpool, England, is sold for £114,000 at auction.[54] The side of the building has an image of a giant rat by Banksy.[55]
• In April 2010, Melbourne City Council in Australia reported that they had inadvertently ordered private contractors to paint over the last remaining Banksy art in the city. The image was of a rat descending in a parachute adorning the wall of an old council building behind the Forum Theatre. In 2008 Vandals had poured paint over a stencil of an old-fashioned diver wearing a trenchcoat. A council spokeswoman has said they would now rush through retrospective permits to protect other “famous or significant artworks” in the city.[56]
• In April 2010 to coincide with the premier of Exit through the Gift Shop in San Francisco, 5 of his pieces appeared in various parts of the city.[57] Banksy reportedly paid a Chinatown building owner $50 for the use of their wall for one of his stencils.[58]
• In May 2010 to coincide with the release of "Exit Through the Gift Shop" in Chicago, one piece appeared in the city.
Notable art pieces
In addition to his artwork, Banksy has claimed responsibility for a number of high profile art pieces, including the following:
• At London Zoo, he climbed into the penguin enclosure and painted "We're bored of fish" in seven foot high letters.[59]
• At Bristol Zoo, he left the message 'I want out. This place is too cold. Keeper smells. Boring, boring, boring.' in the elephant enclosure.[60]
• In March 2005, he placed subverted artworks in the Museum of Modern Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum, and the American Museum of Natural History in New York.[61]
• He put up a subverted painting in London's Tate Britain gallery.
• In May 2005 Banksy's version of a primitive cave painting depicting a human figure hunting wildlife whilst pushing a shopping trolley was hung in gallery 49 of the British Museum, London. Upon discovery, they added it to their permanent collection.[62]
Near Bethlehem - 2005
• Banksy has sprayed "This is not a photo opportunity" on certain photograph spots.
• In August 2005, Banksy painted nine images on the Israeli West Bank barrier, including an image of a ladder going up and over the wall and an image of children digging a hole through the wall.[22][63][64][65]
See also: Other Banksy works on the Israeli West Bank barrier
• In April 2006, Banksy created a sculpture based on a crumpled red phone box with a pickaxe in its side, apparently bleeding, and placed it in a street in Soho, London. It was later removed by Westminster Council. BT released a press release, which said: "This is a stunning visual comment on BT's transformation from an old-fashioned telecommunications company into a modern communications services provider."[66]
• In June 2006, Banksy created an image of a naked man hanging out of a bedroom window on a wall visible from Park Street in central Bristol. The image sparked some controversy, with the Bristol City Council leaving it up to the public to decide whether it should stay or go.[67] After an internet discussion in which 97% (all but 6 people) supported the stencil, the city council decided it would be left on the building.[67] The mural was later defaced with paint.[67]
• In August/September 2006, Banksy replaced up to 500 copies of Paris Hilton's debut CD, Paris, in 48 different UK record stores with his own cover art and remixes by Danger Mouse. Music tracks were given titles such as "Why am I Famous?", "What Have I Done?" and "What Am I For?". Several copies of the CD were purchased by the public before stores were able to remove them, some going on to be sold for as much as £750 on online auction websites such as eBay. The cover art depicted Paris Hilton digitally altered to appear topless. Other pictures feature her with a dog's head replacing her own, and one of her stepping out of a luxury car, edited to include a group of homeless people, which included the caption "90% of success is just showing up".[68][69][70]
• In September 2006, Banksy dressed an inflatable doll in the manner of a Guantanamo Bay detainment camp prisoner (orange jumpsuit, black hood, and handcuffs) and then placed the figure within the Big Thunder Mountain Railroad ride at the Disneyland theme park in Anaheim, California.[71][72]
Technique
Asked about his technique, Banksy said:
“I use whatever it takes. Sometimes that just means drawing a moustache on a girl's face on some billboard, sometimes that means sweating for days over an intricate drawing. Efficiency is the key.[73]”
Stencils are traditionally hand drawn or printed onto sheets of acetate or card, before being cut out by hand. Because of the secretive nature of Banksy's work and identity, it is uncertain what techniques he uses to generate the images in his stencils, though it is assumed he uses computers for some images due to the photocopy nature of much of his work.
He mentions in his book, Wall and Piece, that as he was starting to do graffiti, he was always too slow and was either caught or could never finish the art in the one sitting. So he devised a series of intricate stencils to minimise time and overlapping of the colour.
Identity
Banksy's real name has been widely reported to be Robert or Robin Banks.[74][75][76] His year of birth has been given as 1974.[62]
Simon Hattenstone from Guardian Unlimited is one of the very few people to have interviewed him face-to-face. Hattenstone describes him as "a cross of Jimmy Nail and British rapper Mike Skinner" and "a 28 year old male who showed up wearing jeans and a t-shirt with a silver tooth, silver chain, and one silver earring".[77] In the same interview, Banksy revealed that his parents think their son is a painter and decorator.[77]
In May 2007, an extensive article written by Lauren Collins of the New Yorker re-opened the Banksy-identity controversy citing a 2004 photograph of the artist that was taken in Jamaica during the Two-Culture Clash project and later published in the Evening Standard in 2004.[6]
In October 2007, a story on the BBC website featured a photo allegedly taken by a passer-by in Bethnal Green, London, purporting to show Banksy at work with an assistant, scaffolding and a truck. The story confirms that Tower Hamlets Council in London has decided to treat all Banksy works as vandalism and remove them.[78]
In July 2008, it was claimed by The Mail on Sunday that Banksy's real name is Robin Gunningham.[3][79] His agent has refused to confirm or deny these reports.
In May 2009, the Mail on Sunday once again speculated about Gunningham being Banksy after a "self-portrait" of a rat holding a sign with the word "Gunningham" shot on it was photographed in East London.[80] This "new Banksy rat" story was also picked up by The Times[81] and the Evening Standard.
Banksy, himself, states on his website:
“I am unable to comment on who may or may not be Banksy, but anyone described as being 'good at drawing' doesn't sound like Banksy to me.[82]”
Controversy
In 2004, Banksy walked into the Louvre in Paris and hung on a wall a picture he had painted resembling the Mona Lisa but with a yellow smiley face. Though the painting was hurriedly removed by the museum staff, it and its counterpart, temporarily on unknown display at the Tate Britain, were described by Banksy as "shortcuts". He is quoted as saying:
“To actually [have to] go through the process of having a painting selected must be quite boring. It's a lot more fun to go and put your own one up.[83]”
Peter Gibson, a spokesperson for Keep Britain Tidy, asserts that Banksy's work is simple vandalism,[84] and Diane Shakespeare, an official for the same organization, was quoted as saying: "We are concerned that Banksy's street art glorifies what is essentially vandalism".[6]
In June 2007 Banksy created a circle of plastic portable toilets, said to resemble Stonehenge at the Glastonbury Festival. As this was in the same field as the "sacred circle" it was felt by many to be inappropriate and his installation was itself vandalized before the festival even opened. However, the intention had always been for people to climb on and interact with it.[citation needed] The installation was nicknamed "Portaloo Sunset" and "Bog Henge" by Festival goers. Michael Eavis admitted he wasn't fond of it, and the portaloos were removed before the 2008 festival.
In 2010, an artistic feud developed between Banksy and his rival King Robbo after Banksy painted over a 24-year old Robbo piece on the banks of London's Regent Canal. In retaliation several Banksy pieces in London have been painted over by 'Team Robbo'.[85][86]
Also in 2010, government workers accidentally painted over a Banksy art piece, a famed "parachuting-rat" stencil, in Australia's Melbourne CBD. [87]
Bibliography
Banksy has self-published several books that contain photographs of his work in various countries as well as some of his canvas work and exhibitions, accompanied by his own writings:
• Banksy, Banging Your Head Against A Brick Wall (2001) ISBN 978-0-95417040-0
• Banksy, Existencilism (2002) ISBN 978-0-95417041-7
• Banksy, Cut it Out (2004) ISBN 978-0-95449600-5
• Banksy, Wall and Piece (2005) ISBN 978-1-84413786-2
• Banksy, Pictures of Walls (2005) ISBN 978-0-95519460-3
Random House published Wall and Piece in 2005. It contains a combination of images from his three previous books, as well as some new material.[16]
Two books authored by others on his work were published in 2006 & 2007:
• Martin Bull, Banksy Locations and Tours: A Collection of Graffiti Locations and Photographs in London (2006 - with new editions in 2007 and 2008) ISBN 978-0-95547120-9.
• Steve Wright, Banksy's Bristol: Home Sweet Home (2007) ISBN 978-1906477004
External links
Another view and perceptive of the beautiful Yaquina Head Lighthouse near Newport Oregon.
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