From out of the darkness of my basement and even darker corners of Matt Fraatz's mind. He created the Papier-mâché mask and locked himself in in the dogs cage.
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We discovered an attic in our new house. Amazing empty space with cracked green walls and old mirrors. I invited my high-school friend Inna to participate. This set of pictures is like non other i did before, and i guess it's the only one out of all of my work that everybody is going to like.
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Those are just a few pictures from two different photo sessions. 1st is me and my friend Holi. 2nd my friends Cassy's new born baby. Many textures used are close-ups of James Garvey's sculptural works. www.artfolios.org/jimg. Great time again. Thank you guys.
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Me and my roommate had a fun session. I used some black and white acrylics to paint the eyes and a back piece. Thanks Rachie
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so many questions. the answers are too vague, too empty. they are touching my forehead once in a while with a tip of their fingers. touching or just getting too close, so that i only feel the shadows that fall on my skin. round shadows, like bullet holes or tunnels, that i can walk straight through to the core of my head to find the same questions and vague, empty answers that make me walk in circles and run through the same tunnels over and over again. circles with no beginning. tunnels with no light at the end.
I love you i scream, but even i can hardly hear my voice,turning to whisper as my vocal cords tear apart. this whisper is the chorus of my every cell, getting lost in our breaths, chewed in our kisses, caught in the wrinkles of the blanket we make love on.It echoes inside me while i watch you sleeping and tries to grab your hand every time you're walking out of the door.It's always too late to reach you, so it stays inside,poisoning the air i breath, making me even more obsessed. I want to share it with you, but i'm always scared that you'll throw it away,like something you never needed...
...The airplanes killed all the stars and took their places; promise me that you'll be mine and i won't care, i'll be happy as long as you'll be shining for me...
summer time is going pretty busy. i didn't have any time for photography, but i did some cleaning of old dusty folders on my computer and fished out some new old pictures that never got anywhere.
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it's been a long time since i touched a camera, but i'm coming back with my digital rebel. Welcome to my doll house...
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One of my "new old" pieces, that i've been working on and off (mostly off) for the last year, but its done and i love it. Black and white and shades of gray + ink.
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I called this page "mama friendly", cuase my mama is always saiyng that there's something wrong in my art. So i made this folder happy and green.
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I bring a unique photographic view creating a mix of images from different times and places I've been to, memories of people I've met. It is a complicated knot of layers of pattern, color, form. The themes usually carry dark, abusive tones. The violent nature of images disturbs the mind but attracts the eye with its powerful composition and intricate web of textures. My work is a mix of abstract emotions and visual reality.
Black, white and shades of gray took over my art and photography for the first year of their existence. I wanted to see a clear image, it's shape and form without being distracted on bright colors. It was easier for me to enjoy the simplicity of lines, the relationships between the light and the shadows: the constant struggle of white and black created razor sharp edges and a very tense atmosphere throughout the image and in places surrendering to each other giving birth to an endless mass of gray. Later on i introduced red color into my photography. I used the dark side of red. It's violent characteristics, it's ability to shock. Color of blood and fear, it brought another dimension to the global feeling of unsettledness and a lot of times disgust in the viewers mind. I realized that any color i chose to use could come out with its evil side helping me create a visual explosion within the image. I try to work on series of pictures. My main themes are people, structures, landscapes or a lot of times a mix of everything. I love wondering around abandoned buildings, structures forgotten by everything, but time. Here starts one of my biggest obsessions: textures. I love to study the close-ups of decay, rust, rot, peeling paint and mold. They create amazing and most elaborate patterns, full of edgy poisonous colors and weird textures. I want to show people the beauty of broken and forgotten, my fascination with the slow destruction of man made structures and machines. My images is just another reminder of how waist full and destructive the human nature is. Another infinite source of textures is nature. Any organic forms, puzzles of stones, labyrinths of cracks in the ground, twists and knots of trees and roots, leaves and grass. For the first year i used myself as a model for all of my studies of human body. I created multiple series of self portraits, fragments and close-ups of skin. In the beginning I used various materials like rope, gauze, glass, nails, wires, paint, flour and eggs to create unusual textures within skin. Later i started working with my friends and at the same time introduced the textures of abandoned buildings and nature into my work with portrait, which allowed me to form a new vision of flesh, decomposing and deformed, sick, distorted, dismembered. My portraits are echoes of human disorders of body and perversions of mind, their aggressive and sadistic nature, which usually reflects in the names i choose for my works. I manipulate the reality that i capture with my camera, using photo shop to collage different images, melting them together into a surreal fantasy.
hey!
INTERMEZZO cafe? <br> my parents own a restaurant called intermezzo <br> r we talking about the same one?! <br> your work is fantastic by the way! <br> So unique <br> I just love it
» Posted byNatalieRozenon 4/4/2007 1:02:06 AM.
hello
sorry about the br's. Oh i see so you must live in another country! Tasha I just can't get over your work Can't wait to see more Thankyou for writing back xo natty
» Posted byNatalieRozenon 4/4/2007 7:06:04 PM.
I have made it
I am here at artfolios. Thanks for the support Tasha
» Posted byClashon 4/17/2007 11:57:21 PM.
loving it
love the new work! You are an inspiration to me.
» Posted byClashon 8/17/2007 4:31:06 PM.
Me Too!
Really great work! Please keep it up.
» Posted byKrisBirdon 5/9/2008 12:44:12 PM.
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