Wow... if this were in color, or any more detailed, it'd be almost too disturbing to look at. That's saying something, for me.

Hehe, many thanks! :]

I kind of dislike color lately. I like to learn to use it scarcely and get my point across in simpler means. I like the look of grayscale and b&w works...

(Thanks for taking your time to comment. :] Really, much appreciated.)

*smile* What's another fave, right?

I'm just learning those big art words like "value" and "composition" but my teacher agrees that I have enough to worry about in gray tones before I tackle color. That's one reason your ... five-tych? Jumped out at me so much, and that I like it.

hehe, thanks. I'm kind of rusy on that stuff too. Lately composition and design theory are things I really could use improvement in - I know next to nothing about them. Good color can make a good first impression, even when other things, like draughtsmanship, are lacking - when one is learning, like me, covering up mistakes to the point they aren't apparent isn't a productive thing to do.

"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."
Favorites don't mean much. I'm not saying they're worthless, they do show someone sort-of liked a work, I just mean their value is pretty relative and unknown: one person may have skimped through "browse" and halfheartedly favorited anything they didn't find vomit-inducing, another person may have thought-trough several options repeatedly, really thinking about the works and the favorite to them means they sincerely like the work and think it's good.

Comments (esp. thoughtful ones), on the other hand, show a work has interested a person and the person kindly sacrificed (atleast a bit of) their time and attention - and that's always a thing to be highly valued. :]

I love how black that sad body is against the plate and the smears.
I just keep scrolling back up and looking at it. I love how the body is rendered, the shine along the hip and that taught muscle that connects the arm to the back.

Thanks :>

What fascinates me about that smear between the head and body is the implication that this animal might be no more substantial than a mass of dark pudding or a blob of ketchup: not a once-living form at all, but merely food, and nothing but food.

For that reason, of all the prints in "Terre des hommes," I find this one the most effective and disturbing.




Mark

Yes, apparently this one turned out better than the rest. Others are kind of overly poetic and dreamy to generate any firm emotional responses... The reason being I wasn't sure what to exaggerate of all the things i wanted to say; shock value is all over the place recently, and i'd like to find a different way of saying things. =/

There's also a different connotation to this one. I still remember how much i hated meat (that stuff tasted horrible, i couldn't understand how people could eat it) in my childhood, yet parent still shove it down my throat... Thinking of all the dishes i left unfinnished makes me uneasy, i bet it was about 10 or more animals worth of meat there, just going to waste.

>>Others are kind of overly poetic and dreamy to generate any firm emotional responses

In isolation, perhaps; but all together, as variations on a theme, they support each other.

This particular variation just happens to be more dissonant.




Mark

Ah, good point. This was prolly my first attempt at making a coherent series, making the works work in isolation as well as a whole turned out to be harder than i thought... and i put too little thought into it (stupid procrastination, stupid deadlines). Next time, i hope, i'll do better. :)

Is this your own writing, too? I really love this series; I wish I were better at articulating things. It's fantastic.

Thank you :]

No, the quotes on the works themselves are taken from various sources. This one being from a dr of philosophy thesis paper on the problem of animal victims in post-darwinian fiction. I'll post a journal about it shortly.

The aforementioned paper can be found here.

Thanks for the link, it sounds really interesting!

I know I'm late on commenting for this, but I've got to say, this is very well done, just as the other pictures in this series are.

It also has me thinking about vegetarianism...something I haven't quite thought of a whole lot before.

Thank you. And thanks for taking the time to sift through my gallery. :)