art – control alt delete ak47

art – sex & war

war has to always be so phallic… So let’s substitute, well kinda

old art with new photoshop filters

i like doing this to classic art, making it feel a little more gritty (i mean look @ the pix, what’s going on isn’t exactly nice 2 begin with..

art – aircraft carrier

My latest work in progress, playing around with photoshop for a very minimilist effect, may be transfered into stencil / paste-up piece of street art.

Storm in US over chocolate Jesus

from BBC world news, an interesting artwork, which has received much criticism from religious groups.

An excerpt from this article…

 A New York gallery has angered a US Catholic group with its decision to exhibit a milk chocolate sculpture of Jesus Christ.
The six-foot (1.8m) sculpture, entitled “My Sweet Lord”, depicts Jesus Christ naked on the cross. Catholic League head Bill Donohue called it “one of the worst assaults on Christian sensibilities ever”.

now i’m actually a bit jealous that my work has never received such criticism, although am still going to try my hardest!

finding nemo 2 – coming soon?

is this some form of viral marketing, or just clever photoshop?

aww the giant bunny fell from the sky

a 200 foot long pink knitted bunny rabbit!! how could art ever get more adorable, yet tragic… Created by Viennese Art Collective & situated in the Italian Alps, this is something i have to visit. Til then visit a website with more info & pics.

art – war of the posers

i made this in 2004.wasn’t this war supposed to be over by now?

art – buddha mandala

in homage to my previous blog, re: geometrics & art, i now post one of my works, buddha mandala.

Art never wins a war

I propose that artworks, along with innocent lives are most certainly destroyed by war.

I had just read an interesting article on BBC news site re: “Advanced geometry of Islamic art” (Geometry & Art are two words i love to hear together in a sentence) & ended up realising that in war, art or culture will always lose regardless of any patch of earth being ‘liberated’ by either friend or foe (what is the difference?). War is really about the battle between egos, insanity, cultural difference, morals & ‘god’. It’s not like anybody involved really gives a shit about stuff which looks nice.

And all sides are to blame, all those who look down the scopes of their weapons to others looking back @ them, both seeking to spill each others blood. I remember when the taliban destoyed the buddhas of bamyan, something that, as a child i saw in a national geographic magazine, & drempt since of actually visiting them one day. *sigh* Destroying something so amazing, is just plain dumb in my eyes.

& now all these bombs dropped in the middle east by coalition forces, surely must be destroying some timeless & priceless art. I know alot of americans are damn proud of their flag, as a symbol for freedom & history, so perhaps they should be more aware of art, history, culture & how all this is represented, & timecapsulised within every piece of art that exists. I don’t know if it’s just me, but i find art from other cultures, to be most exciting, & provides, in turn, inspiration for my own work.

As an artist, of a spiritual (but not religious or dogmatic) nature, i have to say that yes, we create art out of faith, hope, when in love or pain & often for god, so does this mean that the enemies art should be classified as ‘enemy combatant’ or is this art being wiped out, like all the innocent people ie: ‘colateral damage’, suffering & being destroyed in this craziness. Does anybody care beyond destruction?

Perhaps art will have to fight back, or is it already in the form of a new mooninite army?