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The mask , skin and the shadow sz 70 x 100 cm , 2014 , acrylics on canvas .Related content
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thank you . Lots of work with this one , but it was worth it .
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Thanks . Here´s soundtrack www.youtube.com/watch?v=YE9RPD…
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That's beautiful!
Hey maybe you like my minimal ambient project www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCDS6M…
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thank you , i liked it and found some other new interesting music along the way .
Is everything with infinite inertia title your making ?
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Thanks! Yes. infinite inertia was a short lived side project.
This is my main project vulturehaslanded.blogspot.nl/s…
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yes , i found it yesterday , good stuff
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beautiful, specially the mask part... those whites and reds are tragic somehow.
and again, the horizontal lines.
i find myself perturbed by the empty eyes and the scarred mouth. maybe they are the most tragic of the two, after all..
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see the third figure in the middle , almost invisible shadow ? Mask is falling and skin is dissolving , but shadow retains it´s composure ..
that turns tragedy into mystery .
horizontal lines can be seen like passage of time in linear thought , and make reference to corporeal and earth bound things .
picture can be seen to be about renewal where old skin is shed off .. mystery play
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i can see all that, by looking or just by intuition.
good work with mystery, Markus!
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Thanks Hanan 
it was mystery to me where this painting was going to until i put the final touches in it -
then i addet the third figure and noticed it was ready .
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happens a lot to me, discovering things when finally they happen, and not before.
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Creating when working , that´s how it happens most of the time , even if there´s a plan it usually changes ..
many times when working on big canvas like this , that takes lots of time .
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yes big canvas. and anyway, painters much more time than photographers.
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depends on the work in question - some of my smaller ones are done in seconds and some photos are edited for
weeks or months ( so i have heard , when eaves dropping photographers 
weeks , usually .
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hehe, it's more like a waiting period than a working period
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much same is true for painting , at least my paintings ( if doing simple realism it´s more just matter of spreading the colors )
lots of time goes staring at the work and putting it away for a while and doing something else ,
getting back to painting when idea appears ( or getting back to it even if idea doesn´t appear , just to get it forwards -
after all most ideas come when working ) .
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thanks Rene . i used most unorthodox methods when making this - there´s layers of gesso and drawing between layers of paint and then paint again .
i also rotated the painting sideways and upside down while working . This is third painting on this same canvas - all that stuff must add some depth to the work .
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Something like a dream (whithout nightmare...)
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nighmare part comes from trying to photograph these in current lightless conditions here - this one is shot outside in half darkness by day .
it´s much darker than many of my other paintings anyway - do you think i should have made it brighter in color ?
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Don't change anything: these pastel colours are perfect! ( never red in my painting!)
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i decited to leave it as it is . If i had worked for another day this would look very different .
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