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There's a crudeness, a roughness, to selecting felt tip markers to draw with. Each stroke is unforgiving and reads like an original thought, similar to storyboard development. The result has a cerebral feel, like rough notes or a first draft, suggesting that while it isn't perfect, there's still enough there to be engaged with. My strategy was to approach this series in a non-illustrative manner: as minimalistic as possible, spacious, airy, light-filled, detached yet a cohesive composition. When objects are outlined, they're represented in the most simplest way. It's like the negative of a photo where the elements aren't really there. This invisibility was perfectly consistent with the concept of "absence" which requires some degree of visual decoding to form the image.
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"There is so much hidden in each of the drawings. The longer one looks at them, the more intricate details become apparent. I find myself immersed in the "maze" of lines, forms and feelings they evoke. Swimming underwater amongst fronds, seaweed and elegant exotic fish.. lost in a forest of lush entwined greenery.. in a Hall of Mirrors with endless corridors that confuse and confound. I follow the avenues of my imagination as I gaze into the World you have created with these drawings!"
~ Theresa Pope Church (American scientist)
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“Wonderful abstracting of the forms limited only by imagination. The form/field perception keeps changing on me. What really wows me in this work is when I can hold that place between field and form. And at that place where a meaningful, recognizable image dissolves. (If any of this makes any sense).”
~ Bob Boldt (American artist, writer, poet, film/video maker)
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“Exquisite, intense, cryptogrammatic (if that word is relevant here) drawings. Worthy of prolonged perusal and study.”
~ Kenneth Radu (Canadian writer)
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“Love the line and reference.. and does remind me of Keith Haring's 'always perfect' line drawings and Pub art. I love where this comes from, maybe where it is going, imagination without inhibition, and for now, it is complete.”
~ John Felice Ceprano (Ottawa rock sculptor, painter)
Bane of a missing Voynich (1), 2023
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Bane of a missing Voynich (2), 2023
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Bane of a missing Voynich (3), 2023
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Bane of a missing Voynich (4), 2023
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Bane of a missing Voynich (5), 2023
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Bane of a missing Voynich (6), 2023
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Bane of a missing Voynich, 2023 (Adamo Macri)
02:35 - 1920 x 1080
