Industrial Remnants
A deserted carbonic acid factory... In
the Western world the industrial era is mostly in the past... However, some companies in the West establish new factories in developing countries, by
economic and environmental reasons...
Industrial Remnants is one of 14 artworks in the multimedia exhibition Carbon Footprints - with art by Unda Arte and music by Armand Gutheim - shown in Coimbra, Portugal, February 2013. The main theme concerns the environment and our lifestyle, explicitly and implicitly...
A Different Ambience of Black
Is this an exterior or an interior..? What you see is actually a wall inside a house... A building without a roof..!
Hyperrealism is sometimes claimed to be the characteristic mode of postmodernism (for example Jean Baudrillard in Simulations, 1983). In the realm of the hyperreal, the distinction between simulation and the "real" disappears...
Crime novels/psychological thrillers, crime television series etc. may, at times, influence our view of black/darkness... These kinds of genres are often inspiration sources - also in everyday life...
In certain expressions, "dark" denotes something destructive, scary and/or depressive. These expressions are popular - easy to use - in the media. This may be contributing to the survival of the particular associations...
Especially in regions with relatively few sun hours, it is important to note that more or less creepy, obscure associations concerning black are neither natural nor deterministic... See Ambience below, where we go beyond this, and Struggle with God, another example of hyperrealism.
Ambience
As emphasized under "About" on this home page, it's sometimes credible to interpret darkish/grayish nuances more or less positively... It's really too simple to say that such nuances are automatically depressive/destructive. Even you may gain by thinking more positively about darkish/grayish nuances - especially if you happen to live in a country that is quite rainy and/or dark...
How do you feel when you're looking at this picture..? In our minds, the ambience here is calm, poetic, secure... A lot of children are not afraid of the dark, for example at home... There may be an adult outside this picture; the contact may be trustful. In what way may a wider context of this kind alter the interpretation..?
The child may be saying something here - what..? However, we think that this child feels that the adult is listening.
Triptych III
Perhaps you happen to live in a country with a, more or less, Christian culture? If so, let's presume, hypothetically, you didn't spend Christmas at home this year - and that plastic, pink Christmas tree wasn't ideal. What if your favourite dish tasted poison, your children were crying, Santa Claus was drunk, a storm took your electricity and you gained two kilos... However, all in all, it's better than losing your only child at Christmas... We know one of these afflicted couples.
This work of art may also represent one, two or three violently wounded persons at Christmas. Can you learn something here or not..? If so, what..? Taking Christmas less seriously or not..? Perhaps being more grateful for your Christmas or what you have - without any guilt, of course... Appreciation/meaning and well-being are undoubtedly intertwined..! Is it time to find a better balance between gratitude and working for new, interesting goals..? You know your own situation.
Take a look at the child again; suppose he or she is alive... As you can see, different techniques are used for the two halves. Why..? Who is the child - or the children..? What do the flames stand for, according to you..? If you ask us, the cross isn't in flames and it's not made of wood.
The person to the right is representing a woman from the 19th century. What is she made of..? Does she believe in God or not..? In this setting the frame is a postmodern experiment, i.e. the meeting between a woman from the past and new technology.
What is the man to the left representing in this context..? Does he believe in God or not..? There is a twist concerning the technique and the content. If you are discerning several different layers of interpretation, a suggestion is to really separate them. This may be important concerning the picture to the left. Especially if you reflect a little upon the title...
This work of art may also represent one, two or three violently wounded persons at Christmas. Can you learn something here or not..? If so, what..? Taking Christmas less seriously or not..? Perhaps being more grateful for your Christmas or what you have - without any guilt, of course... Appreciation/meaning and well-being are undoubtedly intertwined..! Is it time to find a better balance between gratitude and working for new, interesting goals..? You know your own situation.
Take a look at the child again; suppose he or she is alive... As you can see, different techniques are used for the two halves. Why..? Who is the child - or the children..? What do the flames stand for, according to you..? If you ask us, the cross isn't in flames and it's not made of wood.
The person to the right is representing a woman from the 19th century. What is she made of..? Does she believe in God or not..? In this setting the frame is a postmodern experiment, i.e. the meeting between a woman from the past and new technology.
What is the man to the left representing in this context..? Does he believe in God or not..? There is a twist concerning the technique and the content. If you are discerning several different layers of interpretation, a suggestion is to really separate them. This may be important concerning the picture to the left. Especially if you reflect a little upon the title...
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