Emails with Isaac
Looking back at my old journals, I came across two emails that I had printed and glued into the book. I also wrote on the page with a big green marker, “Revisit Lacan…Mirror: other as other…”
The files after cutting up the photo and manipulating each of the blocks in Photoshop before printing and assembling.
From Isaac at 12:04PM, November 11, 2005 (my second model for Postures and Parts series):
“Oh, I hadn’t realized I made no comment on the nudes. It’s a different feeling being the model for these than it is simply criticizing them from the outside. It’s also difficult when I don’t know the scale. Plus, your work is usually very layered, which doesn’t come across in the digital images.
Did you abandon the one with me on all fours? Just wondering.
My response at 12:31 PM:
“What you have said about the Isaac pieces---I agree. There is a playfulness to them, but also, with the scale and impact of layering and color, they are incredibly imposing. I felt that I was able to capture some of the daring that is ‘Isaac’, unlike the images of John, which to me, feel more objectified, and the images of Ben, which … well I don’t have as clear ‘felling’ yet for his because I’ve only finished one and I’m not that connected to it. I’m doing one piece of the image of you on all fours. The angles and negative space are wonderful. I won’t finish it until the end of December, so it will be one of the last pieces, but will more than likely be the best. It’s got 40 10”x10” pieces to it. I don’t think that it will have a feeling of violation either because although you are on all fours, the angle of the shot is ¾ front facing the viewer. You are not looking at the viewer, though. You are in contemplation. The piece, to me, speaks more about the moment of temptation, the what-if. It’s also very static. I removed all reference to the actual environment, suspending your body in an atmosphere of baby blue which contrasts nicely with your skin. The glazed layers, of course, will change the character a bit, and that process is always the exciting part for me, the emotional traces of my own art-making in the attempt to capture some of your personality.”
Sketchbook numbering…
Final Piece
I12_18_24
Mixed (digital color photo printed on Epson 2200, walnut oil glazes, resin, screenprint, wood) 2006
In two pieces, to be assembled.
