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Work in Progress (WIP) 18x18" mix media on canvas
Not good resolution, but I'm really happy with the painting so far.
Then God said, "Let there be a horizon in the middle of the water in order to separate the water." So God made the horizon and separated the water above and below the horizon. And so it was. — Genesis Chapter 1, Verses 6-7
I've long been fascinated with the creation stories of various religions. In the Genesis account one of the things I find most interesting is that it describes a process of "creation by separation" — it's not about making something by putting things together but by pulling things apart. Not everything in the Genesis creation story is made this way but it is a theme that carries through to the creation of woman and the eventual separation from the Garden of Eden.
The whole of the Old Testament deals frequently with issues of separation and post-separation. That's all the more interesting I think as the stories in the Old Testament are happening at a time when human populations (and the required size for population centers) were increasing to the point that different groups (tribes) were finding it increasingly difficult to remain separate (i.e., to keep from running into each other and from competing for the same resources).
This is a layering of two photographs both taken April 18th, 2007.
All guillotines follow the same basic pattern, but the modern ones did not have a scaffold for the condemned to climb and were placed directly on the ground. As with the gallows in Britain, this was found to be a great improvement, due to the difficulty of getting an often terrified person with their hands strapped behind them up a flight of steps.
The Dangers of Halloween
Apartment blocks became a worldwide phenomenon in the 1960's as city planners cast off design based on human scale and began construction on a future of managed density. Filled with optimism about a new society that would live in collective units, the designers swept away old learning about organic urban growth in order to bring the traffic pattern of human lives under strict control.
In “Units of Separation”, my project is an exploration of the way people maintain their individuality while being part of a collective and how units of space meant to foster communal harmony can actually threaten our sense of community. While a resident may come to know their immediate neighbor, it is possible they may never meet the person living directly above them.
In this collection of images, I explored blocks of flats in different countries and photographed them from different vantage points. I am fascinated by how the notion of communities in high-rise apartment complexes changes in different parts of the world. In some countries it is a sign of luxury, in others they are equated to a slum.
© Magda Biernat
"...And both that morning equally lay
in leaves no feet had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I --
I took the one less travelled by,
and that has made all the difference."
Robert Frost, The Road Not Taken.
An invisible barrier, thicker than any glass, stronger than any wall.
I'm fascinated by how it turned out. Looks like the character is putting his/her hand on a 'window'. Loneliness? Emo? hehe.
It's just shadow on an orange coloured wall.
My friend Jaime got a bit excited on the dance floor and through her arm right out of her shoulder. Pretty cool eh? I wanna party with that chick!
Strobist: Shoot-through umbrella with SB-800 flash above and slightly to the right of the subject. The soft light from the umbrella lights the face. The specular highlight on the background creates separation.