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?

[avad.livejournal.com]

I'm working on that last one as we speak. In the pic, the pink room already has a bed, two nighttables and a dresser.There's a dining room table...and a patio table outside on the patio...
The green room also has the basics, and an adjoining bathroom with the basic bathroom features. Living room has only couches,rug and lamp so far..lots of empty space. The yellow room is the kitchen which will get kitchen usuals, the grey room is the garage and I may keep it blank/empty, the other small white room is another bathroom, which will get fixtures.

It's in the vien of The Sims, which I think is a bizarre and telling game phenomena. But it's also reflecting ideas I'm exploring about information organizing itself as objects and spaces in cyberspace. There's a fascinating discussion of the concept of 'memory palaces' in the book 'Envisioning Cyberspace' that I think you might enjoy. In lieu of that for now,here's a brief passage I found on the web:memory palaces (http://www.lcc.gatech.edu/gallery/rhetoric/terms/memory.html)

[ljreader-liz.livejournal.com]

I rather like itas it is. It is something I would love to look out on in the courtyard we have directly beneath this window and outside the reading room. A Long Time since I viewed your work and a very happy and refreshing view I am getting.

[avad.livejournal.com]

thanks.
that icon of yours- so strange...my father did a pen and ink drawing so similar long ago...when I was a child...and he got it printed (It was the only time he did multiples)...so we had a box of them...and gave them as gifts to much of the family....
Brings back memories..:)

How Wonderful

[ljreader-liz.livejournal.com]

I chose it through assciations stirred by my last entry on 'Kindred Spirits' (of which I never thought would lead to my father) That in turn caused me to remember how the good parts were with him - and his remarkable empathy with animals. After he left he lived in a caravan, completely self sufficient, and I can remember how he could bring a fox - of which, alongside Deer, there were still many in Kent,now all gone along with the woods) right up to us and talk to it until it sat down and appeared to understand completely. He was quite remarkable with animals and hopeless with people; a trait I am finding more and more of in myself.

I would love to have seen your father's work...

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Re: How Wonderful

[avad.livejournal.com]

wow. friending and truly communicating with wild animals was my DREAM as a child. I would have been in absolute awe.

Re: How Wonderful

[ljreader-liz.livejournal.com]

Hmmm So would I - but it is all in memory which is life's core. My brother has a fe things as does my sister but he sold everything to go to Germany to meet (who was to become) his 4th wife.
Maybe some photo's will come to light one day of his carvings and beadwork and the rest. If so then I will load them online.

Things are changing in my family. My mother, at my father's wife's request, stays and is looked after by Eslinda (Dad's 4th Wife) and, since this has begun my mother remembers and speaks of many characteristics my father had which she has never ever referred to before - his patience and kindness and intuition. The circle is closing or, if you prefer, the connections are being made and creating further connections. I think we saw things - and perhaps still use a different model to explain and share these things but I think we approach the same goal ...

Love and Inspiration bless you.

Re: 'I would love to have seen your father's work

[ljreader-liz.livejournal.com]

I mistook these words as yours hence my answer. Apols - tired and time for bed! But let it stand.

On animals. All that divides us from communication with animals is our human tendency a) to fear, b) our self-conscious and self centred homocentric view of the world C0 our sentimentalising of them. Keep a search in some are of your mind for your power animal or guardian - but for all I know you already know it.

So nice to be back in touch - to coin an understatement.

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