So far this is last of Crux Philologorum series. This is again based on a summer photo of my mom her brother and their cousin on a woodland walk. I wanted to create a surreal dream like scenario, of a normal family photo up close, but when...
Following the initial collage idea and the Crux Philologorum meaning I created few more of the alternative memories images. This photo was sent to me by my uncle, I never saw it before. For me it looked like taken in a different era, or even different...
I was wandering how to use the old family photos that I found so inspiring. I firstly tried projecting them onto distorted spaces, creating clusters of memories, after that I tried transfering them onto gauze and other sheer materials, I tried glass and wax to create...
After creating the series of self-portraits, I used this technique on dream-like images, I wanted them to evoke the meditative state and the outer body experience that people describe during meditations. In an article by Aviva Berkovich-Ohana we can read that the meditation practice can...
As I made all the wax hand shells I didn`t want to stop there. I decided to show how I remember certain types of touch, the unwanted, uncalled for touch- with a strong emotions attached to it. Memory and emotion so strong it still causes skin to...
I came back to this idea after over a month, and a lot of quite traumatic events that happened to my family. I found the repetitive motion of dipping my hand in hot wax is actually soothing in a way. I tried different methods of making...
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How to show the memory of a touch? The gentle stroke of fingers touching skin? The most obvious would be to photograph or draw someone who would touch you. Holding hands, gentle strokes of fingers against the skin. I have started looking at other artists who explored that...
https://youtu.be/wBtuGkVcBzg According to Jung, the development of a viable social persona is a vital part of adapting to, and preparing for, adult life in the external social world. "A strong ego relates to the outside world through a flexible persona; identifications with a specific persona (doctor,...
A friend who works in a marketing agency recently introduced me to a S.C.A.M.P.E.R Substitute Method. A method that helps you generate ideas for new products and services (and in many cases art) by encouraging you to ask seven types of questions, which are designed...