tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-72917532846902136072011-09-02T19:01:38.328-07:00clonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15638104144591176169noreply@blogger.comBlogger11100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7291753284690213607.post-40294868965374809982009-11-12T17:09:00.000-08:002009-11-12T18:13:58.918-08:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_3IEKPnfsBBA/SvyyUWOzOZI/AAAAAAAAABA/FKEqv_iNWcE/s1600-h/POP034.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 214px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_3IEKPnfsBBA/SvyyUWOzOZI/AAAAAAAAABA/FKEqv_iNWcE/s320/POP034.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5403389715572537746" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family: verdana;">American Sweet Heart.<br />Was created during 2003-2005<br />Its my first serious Collage, I have done many in the past but the magnitude of this one allowed me to take Collage to a whole new place in my work.<br />Before American Sweet Heart, I had used collage as a tool, in some way I think I had always left it in a kind of school project level, an exercise of sorts.<br />I enjoyed the idea of the sensations you get by juxtaposing images, its also a fluid way of delivering a message.<br />What made this a unique piece, is that it took me into that overwhelmed place where the piece captures you. The same feeling I get when I'm painting a mural. Now I am not saying it was a piece that was created fast. It took me quit a while, staring at it for hours and hours and days and weeks at a time; until suddenly, I would know exactly what to do and then I would have to let it sit for a while until I figured out what to do next.<br /><br />This piece seemed to be magical. I believe specially for one reason, this collage is constructed based on an old painting, that even though was not my favorite; I still liked it. There is something beautiful of destroying in order to create, a strange empowering moment, when nothing matters and the destruction of old allows new to flow.<br /><br />The images I used are also very important to me. I have collected them since I moved to United States. some I have brought back from trips to different cities in California and New York as well as from Portland and Seattle. Mostly I look for images on the streets as I like the wear caused by the urban environments.<br />there are also images from the cards in Vegas that dancers and adult entertainers use to promote their services.<br />There are obviously images from the most powerful Trade marks in the free world.<br />These I like to use their packaging materials, which I like treating them to separate the colors from the cardboard, it makes me feel I recycle their Ink into simple color in my Art.<br /><br />The Spiritual meaning or message I get from this piece, is one that I believe "American" means something very different from People born or that live in the American Continent.<br />I think "American" to most people outside of the United States of America means something very different, a Lifestyle, a dream, a lie, a system, a powerful force that influences the entire world.<br />It is an ideology which has always been a paradox of positive principles and negative deliverance.<br />By working on this piece I understood my emotions and perceptions of these concepts, as well as the way I was relating to the people from this new country, as well as my own American psyche.<br /> <br />I believe humanity still has inner beauty despite living in a sick society</span>.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7291753284690213607-4029486896537480998?l=thedeadtv.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>clonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15638104144591176169noreply@blogger.com0