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mountain man

Posted by Thelma Chambers on February 29, 2008

mountain man
Originally uploaded by tamtambird
my very first animation done with dolls house windows and a mouse, I think it has a certain edgy thing going for it

recent

Portuguese paintings, still life and flowers

Poppies

spoons * sing a song of sixpence * memories of the sea

Here are some works which were never shown, The ideas began at the Royal Academy Schools in the early 80's where I began working on fruit still life in front of patterned cloths, I was interested in integrating the background and foreground into one surface pattern, with three dimensional foreground elements and flat patterns interweaving. Later I continued to make a move away from the figurative, away from simply representing the objects in front of me, and in my journey to subvert the observed I stumbled, as though from the wings, on to the stage of the narrative. The majority of these images have an underlying theme of collapse; collapsed distance, space, time, and object boundaries. The storytelling themes reflect this: a shipwreck, Alice through the looking glass, memories, the aftermath of murder, pop up cards and nursery rhymes etc etc. I explored the montage of memory and the nonsensical way in which a field of vision can be collapsed onto a single picture plane.

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