SYNESTHESIA: 2013

Sunday, August 18, 2013

Digital Modulations

I started playing with Digital Arts when I first got Photoshop 5 back in the mid 1990's. It was also the time when Yugoslavia started to break apart. It was the end of communist rule in that region.

Three Home 3

Belgrade Burning

Collateral Damage

Ethnic Cleansing

Exodus To Macedonia

Human Shield

Milošević

Novo Sad

Right Hand Of Mayhem

One of the most dangerous man in Europe was Željko Ražnatović also known as Arkan. He orchestrated one of the most horrific and atrocious war cromes during the Serbian Wars.

Transcendental Nihilism

Does everything that we know of really exist?

Saturday, July 27, 2013

" A postcard from paradise
Delivered by mortal hands
X marks the spot where you lay
Now the sun burns down on the sand "

Flesh For Lulu - "Postcards From Paradise"

I found these stash of Postcard mini-collages that I had fashioned from those free Tower Record postcards that I used to wantonly grab every time I come to that store in Campbell, California to buy CD's and concert tickets.
My subjects are from quite contemporary tabloid events that happened in the 1990's - The First Persian Gulf War, Jeffrey Dahmer, Alien Life...etc. It was the easiest way to create something fast while I was still working as a security guard and going to school (San Jose State University) at the same time.

Damn Dahmer (1996)

Jeffrey Dahmer (1996)

Slow Mouths Can Do? (1996)

Blind follower, Bad Leader (1996)

Forget Heaven (1998)

Rats Live On No Evil Star (1996)

Puppetmaster (1996)

White Father of The Rising Sun (1996)

Dia De Los Muertos (1996)

Do Me Amadeus (1996)

Eleanor Nevermore (1996)

Hamlet, Montague, & Capulet (1996)

Search Now (1996)

Simple Minded (1996)

If you have nothing left to burn, will you set yourself on fire?

I thought that pain and truth were things that really mattered
But you can't stay here with every single hope you had shattered

I'm not expecting to grow flowers in the desert
But I can live and breathe and see the sun in wintertime

--Big Country - "In A Big Country"