Toned Drawings

Paul Noble (JB)

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Kseniya Simonova_Ukranian Sand Animation Artist (NL)

Winner of Ukraine's Got Talent.

Scott Avett (AD)

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Live Spray Paint Art (JH)

Live Spray Paint Art-Boys and Girls Club Painting#2 - The funniest home videos are here

Gosia Wlodarczak (BH)

AFETY ZONE IS THE HUMAN NEED TO HAVE/ESTABLISH A ZONE OF SECURITY (PHYSICAL OR MENTAL), A SPACE IN WHICH TO FEEL SAFE, COMFORTABLE, AT HOME WHEN THE MIND CANNOT FOCUS, WAITING FOR UNEXPECTED INVADERS; WHEN, AT NIGHT, THE BODY CANNOT RELAX TWISTED IN READINESS TO GET UP AND RUN… SAFETY ZONE IS THE NEED TO HAVE/ESTABLISH A ZONE OF STABILITY, A PLATFORM OF DISCOURSE WHEN THE ACTUALITY OF THE PERSONAL, CULTURAL AND ARTISTIC MIND-SET IS CONSCIOUS IN TWO LANGUAGES, POLISH AND ENGLISH; WHEN THIS CONSCIOUSNESS CREATES UNPREDICTABLE MOMENTS DURING WHICH ONE IS NOT ABLE TO COMMUNICATE IN WORDS—A ‘SPACE’ BETWEEN LANGUAGES; WHEN THIS VOID NULLIFIES IDENTITY, AND PRODUCES A SENSE OF DISPLACEMENT, CONFUSION AND FEAR; WHEN IN THE PROCESS OF THINKING EACH LANGUAGE OCCURS/DISAPPEARS SPONTANEOUSLY AND INEXPLICABLY; WHEN NEW LANGUAGE PENETRATES INTO DISTANT MEMORIES, INTO OLDER LAYERS OF KNOWLEDGE, AND RESHAPES THEM; WHEN OLD LANGUAGE SLIPS AWAY AND CHANGES INTO INCORRECT, CRIPPLED FORMS…. Gosia Wlodarczak
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Bob Nugent "Amazonia"

Bob Nugent , "Amazônia" Instituto Tomie Ohtake, São Paulo, Brazil, March 18 - May 10, 2009

On March 18th, Tomie Ohtake Institute in Sao Paulo, Brazil opened its doors to "Amazônia", a monumental piece Bob has been working on for the past 3 years. The 340ft. long drawing is a representation of Bob’s experiences with the Amazon River.

Walton Creel: Deweaponizing The Gun (MM)

DEWEAPONIZING THE GUN - Walton Creel

The terms gun and weapon are practically interchangeable. From hunting to war, self defense to target practice, the gun has been a symbol of power and destruction. Art and entertainment have both taken the same approach to he gun. Traveling Wild West shows had gunslingers that shot crude silhouettes and names, but this was done to illustrate the shooters prowess. Some artists have used high speed film to capture a bullet slicing through its target, while other artists have melted guns into sculptures.

When I decided I wanted to make art using a gun, I was not sure what direction I would have to take. I knew I did not want to use it simply as an accent to work I was doing, but as the focus. My main goal was to take the destructive power away from the gun. To manipulate the gun into a tool of creation and use it in a way that removed it from its original purpose. To deweaponize it.

During my first experiment I came across the concept of creating an image hole by hole on a surface. I also figured out that canvas would be too stressed by the process of a rifle firing many bullets into it. I moved on to aluminum and, with further experimentation, I figured out exactly how far apart my shots needed to be and that moving beyond .22 caliber was simply too destructive. When the aluminum was painted beforehand, the blast of the gun knocked off a tiny amount of paint around each hole, which helped fuse the image together.

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Anthony J. Ryder (NR)

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