Almost

[avad]

Ok, the pieces are almost done. I'm so stir-crazy...but I've got to finish.This is the last day to work on them. Got to finish the last marker work, wire them, repaint the edges, touch ups.
*deep breath* I've got a mini bottle of wine open now to hopefully help me relax enough to have my next cup of coffee. Brilliant, no? Don't answer.
SO here are some detail pics for you all of the madness I've been creating . All dealing in some way with suburban/mass desires and emerging architecures in cyberspace:
First one is called 'Private Waterfronts'. There are a bunch of those house/sparklegrass points throughout the piece.


Next we have 'Paradise Landing'


This is 'Rearranging Spaces', I think. I'm not sure of the title yet because I'm thinking of it more as a swirling biological process...akin to evolution in the primordial ooze;) but with our memories and desires taking form in cyberspace.


Detail of that piece, showing the lil 3D labyrinths..


And finally a shot one of the houses in 'Neighbors'. Here I'm getting a little wacky with detail. I'm not sure where to stop. This house is only partially 'furnished' right now..I still have to do the kitchen and other areas...but when I started adding tv sets and teddy bears in the other ones I got a weird not well feeling.;)The 3D effect is wokring quite well on this one with the layers. Wish i had time for another layer, but I don't.


In case someone new is reading, these are all done with layers of resin, paint, nails on wood.(and some glitter in the magic lawn areas).

Comments

[anansi133.livejournal.com]

For the last picture, I'm wondering how much like a doll house you really want to take this? Teddy bears and TVs are one thing, what about beds and furniture?

Do you visualize thse landscapes as being populated, or are these what the population sees when they move around? Or am I reading too much into this?

[ididntso.livejournal.com]

oh my god, you're amazing!
how many layers are there?
are you going to display them flat?

[lorigami.livejournal.com]

I am really diggin these, especially the one with the "memories". Can't wait to see the finished product!!!

[seppuku-files.livejournal.com]

I bet you that's how God hears the world. Millions of sounds ascending at once and mixing in His ear to become an unending music, unimaginable to us!



-Mozart, from the play Amadeus by Peter Shaffer

[hopeevey.livejournal.com]

Ooooooo!!! I like!!!

[vaneramos.livejournal.com]

Amazing stuff. I "like" paradise landing best because it reminds me of a map of lakes. But the cyberspace idea is most evident and intriguing to me in the first and last ones. I love labyrinths, too. Some of my first colour drawins were mazes.

[sibyllam.livejournal.com]

"Rearranging Spaces" makes me think of a mix of biological and technological. I like it a lot. Kind of a feeling that they two are merging and evolving together, but that the biological is still stronger. That the technological can not survive without it.

[unluckymonkey.livejournal.com]

I hope you don't mind but you've given me a great idea with your layers of resin! I make paper puppet people from time to time and hinge them with wire and frame them in a scene together flat. I think it would look MUCH better if they could be done in layers like you work so that their arms could look like they're to their sides etc. I've looked into doing this with layers of glass or plexi but there is still the sliding factor and I just couldn't figure out how to get around it. Resin! It occurred to me before but I thought then you couldn't take the people out to play with ever. But if I'm not happy enough with the presentation to make more then maybe I should just try it. I know. DUH. Why would I have not tried this before but I had never seen such clear layers on anything so I didn't know if it would work. I would say that my pieces would go with yours if I tried it but I do fruity alice in wonderland type stuff and your work is so wonderfully peaceful and (to make a pun I guess)spaceous. Some day I'll make something you'll want to trade for a small piece OR I'll have money. I just love your work. SOMEthing's gotta give! ;)

I had a dream about you the other nght but now it's really foggy. We were talking for most of the dream and you were really calming me down from something. Fiddle faddle. that's all I can remember now...

[unluckymonkey.livejournal.com]

oh and jsut in case I didn't mention it. THOSE ARE LOVELY!!! I really want to see them in person someday. I should find out the names of the local galleries and you should try to get a show. My area is small but it's much bigger than Bloomington so maybe it's not too small after all.

[rokkitz.livejournal.com]

rofl lolfl orf orf WOW! can i eat it, too?

[mirabehn.livejournal.com]

Wow.

I love these. :)

[nivekogre.livejournal.com]

wow.. this stuff is really interesting. you are talented. may i add you to my friend's list?