deusexmachina

You are one LUCKY DUCKY!!! Jealous am I??? Um YES!!! Have fun, you better take lots of pictures!

Cool! have fun!!!

About my journal:

I have no fear of digital "media", in fact I use a lot of photoshop, and digital printing in my finished work, but only as another tool for the end product.

What I was talking about though was the influence that mass imagery has on any, and all images power as an individual entity. With so much work out there, not only art, in fact barely art, but rather imagery. With the ability to reproduce, mass produce, mass distribute, and create imagery so easily we have saturated the visual world with 2D imagery.

To the point where it makes one question the worth of any image.

For example, why create a beautiful drawing of a woman with tattoos, when I can come on here and see over seven hundred beautiful women with tattoos, all of which are "REAL" in that you know they exist with in our dimension?

Just to do it?

That's great, but it is more an exercise in technique and skill at that point and less about originality, and depth (the two most important aspects of art).

When the Greeks created their sculpture of Aphrodittee (sp), she was unique, she was alone in her beauty. She was physically impossible given the time period, yet insanely beautiful, an idol, an idol that grew into art. She was unique, and she had depth...


So I guess you could say it's more about the "images" power that I am worried about, and less about media. What is meaning, and does anything created in the 2D possess anything beyond being "just another picture?"

just thoughts, I struggle with it daily...