The Anatomy of Illustration
Sprawled Traintrack – Dissecting Your Imagination…. a few titles came to mind. Combining illustration and photography to push an idea to the extreme. Really happy with the way the light works off the jeans.
I was actually trvelling through Italy at the time and in all the supermarkets were heaps of raw meat, slami, proscuitto etc on display, so I wanted to do a tongue in cheek combination of my environment at the time, thus combined a not so realsitic salami shot I took in a supermarket witht the body and traintracks. Lots of fun!
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peter
Ouch!
meanderthal
nice work paul! very clean and professional result…. i would have liked to see the slice positioned where the trains wheels had passed but i’m being very picky….. good to see some more of your skills on display…..
Paul Vanzella
Thanks guys the train tracks and the body aren’t meant to be too literall, more like two images interplaying with eachother to evoke reaction, the widest part of the body proving to have more imapct… but I do see your point “M”...
alexkess
Great piece of work and yummie Ham.
kookylane
OOOOOhh my, very raw lookin meat and not much bone =P. Awesome!
Cliff Vestergaard
Wow crazy cool!
Ange
Great work…
Loredana Crupi
meticulously gruesome…
Anthony Begovic
Now that’s gotta hurt!
Great image, by the way! I like your style.
Stephen Colquitt
Mmmm – Ham
Devan Foster
It does provoke a reaction… and does reduce you to two lumps of meat… and looks like you don’t have a spine either! Nicel put together. Very clean.
kathleen
icky, shocked me with this one…
Naomi Mawson
Nice One Paul;)
Brooke Hyrapiet
fabulously disturbing ! great
Amanda J Slack...
Lol. Nicely done. It would be interesting to know exactly what was running down between the tracks:)
hatefueled
i think they died from lack of a skeleton…
Adrian Rachele
Why do i find this funny? Nice one Paul.
Lost Lost
Can’t believe i missed this before! It’s fantastic. Looks like a few T-bones under his clothes. Well done.
Kent Palmer
very nice! I laughed.
tMAZ
Looking at that makes me laugh and cringe at the same time… hehehe…
Girolamo
haha thats so cool!
PennyEdwardes
Well I must say that it’s different! well done! ( I like the “meat” bits! cool)
Sydney Whitefleet
i love the concept. very well done!
Craig Goldsmith
Very clever.
Craig Goldsmith
Very clever.
Kayla Vernon
i love how shes actually not cut on the rails
TopsyKretts
It’s great. I love it
Mel Brackstone
Wow Paul, your work is always so thought-provoking! The processing here is awesome! I too like the way the light has been used.
Heather King
this is beyond creepy, intense and lovely all at the same time.
AMAZING
LiLNeNaD
hehehe thats kool
Stefan Trenker
fantastic idea and very well executed! great work
Tanya Housham
Scary! But very good!!
Panteli Pyroma...
That’s what I call, “Taking abit off the waist”...Great work!
Naomi Frost
Very cool.
My 4 year old caught me looking at this one. His relpy – “oh, mummy, that would hurt alot…”
Matt Turve
That’s funny, I like this.
sharka
Cool
Jen Cannella
Amazing work!
doppelganger
you are so inspiring.
Heather Loster
too cool. i wish i was that creative.
Robin Fortin IPA
OMG!!! Simply Brilliant.
Jeremy Evans
This is a great concept. Your style all around is fantastic!
Leena Hedman
Weird & cool!
martin venit
I HATE IT WHEN THAT HAPPENS. I JUST DON’T FEEL RIGHT FOR DAYS.
midzing
brilliant image,,, well done Paul
Matt Roberts
Ah… ew.
Melissa Carroll
haha oh wow.
this is humorous to me.
its very cool how you did it.
ltruskett
LOL, great imagination and talent.
Travis Seale
My brother used to work for a morgue and he was once called to a site where a drunk man had stumbled upon some railroad tracks and made himself comfortable so he could fall asleep. Long story short, he feel asleep and had an encounter with a train. His accident wasn’t so lighthearted but I do think this is a very creative idea.
Winslow357
EXCELLENT!! OUTSTANDING!! AWESOME! You put this together perfectly, the masking is nothing less then perfect. Also perfect shading and placement of shadows!
dendoo
i could never even attempt to do anything like this, you owned it. i just wish the slice was were the train would have met the track you know? but this is cool…like someone moved it or something
Robxavier
Pass me some wine I’m gonna need it Verrry Clever Work
Jaeda DeWalt
Beautifully Disturbing . . .
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serena
Ahhhhhhhh this is crazzyyy!
LOVE IT :)
Robyn Lakeman
Ouch, that’s gotta hurt, brilliant DA work Paul
blamo
choptastic …..........
mpaniti
wow! Very cool work! LOL :)
stephfine
Band aide anyone? LOL cool good job
chasingsooz
I love the use of colour in this photograph it makes it look painterly and softens the blow of seeing a person cut in half. Very well done.
Kiko Kairuz
Brilliant!
Vicky Byron
OUCH! Thats HAS to hurt! Great photo!
aglaia b
wonderful title and genius thinking behind this idea.
very skilful and somewhat surreal feel to this image.
love it!
GoreGlam
haha I love this!!
maxiphotography
Local girl where I live lay on the track a couple of years back, train didn’t kill her immediately, lost her legs, died later. Crap for the driver too. A relative of mine had two suicides jump in front of his train on London Underground. Wrecked him too.
Passengers get so grumpy these days when it happens, delays everything and everyone.
I do like your work on here, but not so keen on this one.
David Symons
WOW! So I am not the only one doing “anatomy of” photos. I think you may get a call from Dr. Gunther von Hagens soon. It is going to take me a while to get through all your images. When are you going to bring out a book ?
Paul Vanzella
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too kind…. a book hey! Sounds like a plan.. thank you!
LauraHartley
Paul, so many things come to mind here, where to start? FIRST, PERHAPS, that you laid upon this track LIKE THIS! WOW. Then ,that you bring to life the very horrific notion we all have thinking of what happens when lying on a train track – disection! And then, the somewhat over-the-top and waaaay obvious, tidy, meat layering at the cut point is is wonderfully B-movie, John Waters, or David Lynch!!!
This is so thoughtful, shocking, and yet manageable because of your specific artistic and creative treatment of it. Again, you bring to life our greatest fears, and force us to look. AND, god DA%^....you make it look like art! You make the hideous palatable, accessible, therefore bringing it round to the mind, no longer hidden, and frankly, you leave me watching and wanting for more.
Paul Vanzella
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this has to be the most superb comment written.. love how you acknowledged John Waters and David Lynch – heck – i think we share the same brain Laura! Love the intensity on which you write – you so get me!!!! Thank you!
LauraHartley
Paul, I feel, when I view your work, that if I could BE you, I would do exactly what you are doing. Since I cannot BE you, I UNDERSTAND you, and that is a true thrill. Every time I come here and see a new piece, I am left feeling an odd sense of familiarity. Clearly, man, we’re both just SICK!!! HAHAHA! LOVE, LOVE what you do!
Mel Brackstone
Oh, you take photos in supermarkets too? heh….
jacqleen
LMAO….LOVE LOVE your sense of HUMOR…...you told me how you love the way I see the beauty…..I think You See it the Same Way….you just like to KILL them afterwords :)))))))) LOL
again…...........you Kill me with your amazing POST and TREATMENT! :))) another Great ART! :)
Paul Vanzella
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wow thanks Jacqleen for going into some of the old stuff.. so glad I’m killing you with laughter LOL – that reminds me I have to do more stuff like this!
JuliaWright
Brilliant work
HKBlack
Wonderful-That’s salami,it looks like roundsteak?Good job though.Just what would you say in a greeting card with this on it?Actually this almost cheers me up-I’ve been inone of those moods where I’m happy one minute,then crying the next,therefore getting absolutely nothing done.I’m supposed to be making my worcestershire sauce,cause I’m out and can’t use the commercial brands anymore because I’m allergic to corn and they have corn syrup in them.Life without worcestershire is wrong.Looks like he could use some.
Shea Kennedy 21 days ago
a classic transverse section!
frenchblue 15 days ago
omg…..im not a full veg, i do not eat red meat, however my son loves his sliced meats in this sandwich…i think i wont be able to buy them any more!!!!...great concepts!...lol
Paul Vanzella
replied 15 days ago
...hope i haven’t killed your lunch making ritual… LOL