Something out of the ordinary… An old violin, at the end of its performance, got a new life as an artwork.
Created for a fundraiser for the Calgary Fiddlers' Association, this old and damaged violin was auctioned off at the end of a concert held at The Blues Can in Inglewood. Both front and back were hand engraved with a Dremel tool. Various colours of oil and acrylic paints were then rubbed into the grooves to reveal the images and text. All the words pertain to the history, the music pieces written for and the specific parts of a violin. Thus making it an homage to all past musicians this old violin belonged to at one point of its history.
Laser engraving, acrylic paint, ink, Letraset™, metal letters, high gloss resin on birch plywood.
A blind figure in search of a tactile experience is hidden in the layers of our collective subconscious. Fragmented reality. Bright coloured light… refracted… faceted… permanent.
Floating symbol of permanence. Destined to never settle. Robust and fragile. Contradictory by nature.
Visual remains of an interrupted dance. A dreamscape of motion and sound, that exist solely when asleep, and disappears in the morning daylight.
Graphite pencil, acrylic paint, ink, Letraset™, high gloss resin on birch plywood.
A spirit. A trickster. A sign of luck. Playful and smart, caught in mid-air, dark and mysterious, with a resonating and unsettling laughter… beauty of the beast, fusion of 'pretty' and 'chaos'.
Fleeting silhouettes passing between the tangible and subconscious. Reality vs. dream. Just like fading memories of people met and places visited.
The starter and Part One of my "dreamscape" series. Fading – and often falling – silhouettes of people encountered. Just like the moment in early sleep when you're dreaming of 'falling' and wake up abruptly. All set in a plausible architectured space.
Part Two of my "dreamscape" series. Fading – and often falling – silhouettes of people encountered. Just like the moment in early sleep when you're dreaming of 'falling' and wake up abruptly. All set in a plausible architectured space.
Part Three of my "dreamscape" series. Fading – and often falling – silhouettes of people encountered. Just like the moment in early sleep when you're dreaming of 'falling' and wake up abruptly. All set in a plausible architectured space.
Part Four of my "dreamscape" series. Fading – and often falling – silhouettes of people encountered. Just like the moment in early sleep when you're dreaming of 'falling' and wake up abruptly. All set in a plausible architectured space.
Part Five of my "dreamscape" series. Fading – and often falling – silhouettes of people encountered. Just like the moment in early sleep when you're dreaming of 'falling' and wake up abruptly. All set in a plausible architectured space.
Last but not least Part Six of my "dreamscape" series. Fading – and often falling – silhouettes of people encountered. Just like the moment in early sleep when you're dreaming of 'falling' and wake up abruptly. All set in a plausible architectured space.