This are some of Wikins work, that inspires me…
https://plus.google.com/photos/+BuraQT/albums/5717528381490457553
I SENT THIS TO OVER 50 MODELS…
Hello there, (NAME). What are your modelling rates, and where are you based, please?… Alex
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A year has past, since I had my Stroke. If that is not enough, I have had a tumor in my Stomach, in which, the Stomach had to be removed. It has been tough year, but now, I can see the lighter side of life.
I want to make Artwork to support the troubles and tribulations that I have gone though. Here are a few images, to let you know the sort of thing I am after… You’ll be the one on the right.
The painting is of Aurora. When I was in hospital, and I lost the use of my right arm. I thought, that was it. I didn’t want to live anymore. But one day, I picked up a pencil, and drew this…
Which then, I decided to paint three weeks later…
http://www.ipswichhospital.nhs.uk/Default.aspx.LocID-009new07h.RefLocID-00903200c.Lang-EN.htm
This piece is to reflect the two months I was in Hospital.
I knew right then, there was a purpose… A New Dawn has awoken. I am going to finish this Fine Art Course, with all guns blazing!
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Aurora appears most often in sexual poetry with one of her mortal lovers. A myth taken from the Greek by Roman poets tells that one of her lovers was the prince of Troy, Tithonus. Tithonus was a mortal, and would therefore age and die. Wanting to be with her lover for all eternity, Aurora asked Jupiter to grant immortality to Tithonus. Jupiter granted her wish, but she failed to ask for eternal youth to accompany his immortality, and he became forever old. Aurora turned him into a grasshopper.
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I drew some quick drawings, of what I wanted do…
I then decided to draw it into Photoshop…
Here are a few collages
For many years, Joel-Peter Witkin, has been central to my research. I have written about Witkin many times, and bought most of his books.
I have decided to write about him, along with two other Artists, Jake and Dinos Chapman, and Franko B (Franko Black), for my Dissertation. I will be discussing all three Artists, as well as the subject of Disgust and the Abject within their works of Art.
In 2012, we had to make a book of our work.
I called my book, The Pledge.
www.blurb.co.uk/b/3716969-the-pledge
I named it The Pledge, due to the Film, ‘The Prestige’ (2006). The film is about Magic and Illusions, in which I find my Art very close to. In the film, you get to know the three parts of a magic trick. The Pledge, The Turn, and the Prestige. The following, is from the IMDB website:
Every great magic trick consists of three parts or acts. The first part is called “The Pledge”. The magician shows you something ordinary: a deck of cards, a bird or a man. He shows you this object. Perhaps he asks you to inspect it to see if it is indeed real, unaltered, normal. But of course… it probably isn’t. The second act is called “The Turn”. The magician takes the ordinary something and makes it do something extraordinary. Now you’re looking for the secret… but you won’t find it, because of course you’re not really looking. You don’t really want to know. You want to be fooled. But you wouldn’t clap yet. Because making something disappear isn’t enough; you have to bring it back. That’s why every magic trick has a third act, the hardest part, the part we call “The Prestige”.
www.imdb.com/title/tt0482571/quotes
I would be making a book for each year of my University course, finishing it of with the book, The Prestige.
I was in my final year, ready to do the second of my books, The Turn. One day, out of the blue, on the 4th of December 2013, I had a severe Stroke. It turns out the Stroke that I had, was The Turn.
Later I found out, this was all apart of the plan. I was meant to have the Stroke. The second act is called “The Turn”. The magician takes the ordinary something and makes it do something extraordinary. (The Prestige, 2006). I knew I was meant to finish the course. I had to do something ‘extraordinary’. All my work I done before my Stroke, has to be forgotten. I am a New Artist now! Welcome to ‘Prestige’…
