When I made this video, it was like jumping in a puddle of clear water, then as water settles down around the ankles, the undulating liquid displayed mesmerising reflections..
exploding and merging, fragments of images, pieces of life, fluid yet broken, chaotic yet contained and throbs like a blue heart imprisoned by mind.
Why not? So I aimed my digital camera straight into the sun while I was trimming backyard vegetation. I remember as a small child I challenged the sun, stared without blinking while it set over Manila Bay. The sun as I saw it turned into a sea of blue, then darkness as it disappeared behind the water now filled with reclamation concrete. I thought I won the duel even if it persisted to burn my cornea into a crisp.I t was fun working on this image (above). A humble perception of Ra disappearing beyond an invisible horizon.
Image (above) created from photo I took of Wally Gonzalez in Sydney. A quiet gentleman as he meditated on notes woven with an old Fender. Awesome Filipino musician!
For you Sir Wally, more power to Juan dela Cruz Band!
Wild Horses & Snakes
Image (above) created from a bunch of green and red chilli. Eating them will drive any life form wild.
The Strange Chook
As image of Sunspots evolved, the chicken in my backyard devolved into screeching megaphones. Impatient beings! I feed them on cue with wheat grain and kitchen left-overs like leaky grapes and tutong (burnt portions of cooked rice). One particular hen gave me a hard time with its endless cackling. Image (above) is gift hoping it soothes her nerves. Photo-mental power! (Oh why can’t just they shut up and lay their eggs!:-)
This image evolved from a photo of us of Leila, a young student of mine in airbrush drawing.
Her art teacher in high school has sent her to me via my son Michael. She was so eager to learn
this tricky art instrument and has strugged a bit in the beginning.
Her determination paid off and is now very comfortable wielding it,
like swords of men she painted and exhibited in her school (photos with my son, Michael)
(photo with Mr. Romeo, Leila’s art teacher in high school)
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Good luck Leila. As they say, Art is the only way.
In my backyard I’ve constructed a small pond
with a lot of koi and goldfish in it. An acacia tree stands sentry and
is roost for a couple of kookaburras (Australian Kingfisher). Since I’ve
put a net to cover the pond, I’ve never lost a fish to them. I wonder
what they’re thinking of me. And so this digital art is for them.
There was this American girl who came to visit and interview me for Artfiles, an artists network.
She’s gone back to Missouri and not a word from her, and I’ve forgotten her name.
From photo taken of two of us I’ve created this digital print.
Something for All Soul’s Day, for all those who are not here anymore but whose lives have touched me .
I miss you guys.
I did a lot of small alla prima paintings of chicken and
New Guinea fowl in 1999. I put them all under the scanner
and enhanced them digitally. Here are a few of them.
1st image: The Clown (Filipino: Ang Payaso)
2nd image: The Texan (Filipino: Ang Teksas)
3rd image: The Poulette (Fil: Ang Dumalaga)
All images in this weblog are available in high-resolution A3 prints
on textured paper (unframed).
Do you like what you see? If you’d like to order signed prints, just let me know
at edd.aragon@gmail.com
A3 size prints available; each at US$100 (Au$125)
A4 US$70 (Au$95)
This will be home of my Digitalla Prima, a collection of prints of
digitally manipulated drawings quickly rendered alla prima using
photographs and scanned found objects as base image to start with.
above image: Dreamtime Over a Rusty Fence (Filipino: Panagimpan sa Kalawanging Bakod)
Are you interested in acquiring a high resolution signed print?
Let me know: edd.aragon@gmail.com
A3 size (unframed):US$100; Au$125
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