Transfixed

wooow, must say, it looks quite different from your usual subjects, but man, this would work so well with the theme unleashed. I love it!

This takes me on a journey.

pain : religion : helplessness
passion : pleasure : uplifting

Very powerful & emotive, Paul. Brilliant!
Please make more!

Nice work Paul, Color and light are just great.

great composition and treatment… Its such a great capture in that you can look at it in many ways… its on the borderline of emotions.

This is fantastic Paul… I love it

This is intense, such a removal from your other work but no less outstanding. The cyan tones are chilling.

very dream like….the blues and browns work well against each other and serve to intensify the emotional content in the image…..nice departure from your other stuff too…

I love this! I get the feeling of emotional slavery. Brilliant.

I THINKL THAT WE HAVE A COMON THREAD IN SOME OF OUR WORK IT REALY ROCKS

Nice work, Paul! A crucifixion style version would be great on Easter!

This is amazing, I keep coming back to it.

WOW! Outstanding shot… Very well executed…
Well done!

Powerful and evocative. Great shot.

i see this in pain, intensity of physical emotion moreso perhaps. thankyou paul for your supportive comments on my digital photos. the photography thing is new to me and i reaaly appreciate your expert feedback. cheers

Gorgeous photo! Love the mood!

Paul… if you didn’t tell, I wouldn’t know that was you on the photo, hahaha, very brave indeed to put yourself out there ^_

NICE POSE!

Fantastic image – I love it. Was great meeting you at the exhibition last night – thank you for all your feedback!

Such an emotional looking piece, looks like he is gasping and hanging on with such conviction. I love the silver, blue tones to this and the textures of the walls, all makes a fabulous backdrop. Very powerful indeed:)

Stunning work – so evocative.

Very powerful… It glows yet it’s dark.. The tones are just lovely and the pose works well.

Excellent work !

Amazing shot. Love the color, the pose, the lighting…wonderful.

Excellent study of the human form…this is the type of image that makes you “feel”. Well done!

reminds me of Saw

Very Bill Henson – Did you see his retrospective a few years ago at the NGV ? It was heaven! This is a great take on his style.

wow – thanks Lisadee – that means alot to me… definitely inspired by him.. love his darkness!

If it wasn’t for the hairy chest, it reminds me a lot of Caravaggio’s impossible light sources. Oh, that’s a compliment, by the way. :)

Christ-like in its appearance…. Well done.

Yes indeed, very Bill Henson. I like the fact you leave your hands out of this view, so we have to guess whether your wrists or hands are being held captive or not. There’s the recurring theme with your “6.40am to Rome” in the position of your arms….always food for thought, your work, thank you, Paul!

stumbled over this.. BLoody Fantastic!!

....the lighting…..mood…gives me more a feel of…helplessness…..quite engaging…

striking image,
Ruben

wow…. fantastic… kinda screams at ya

I love the geometric lines that the bricks and the wires make behind the figure.
It contrasts beautifully with the position of the model.

I get goosebumps when looking at this….very powerful image, wonderful, wonderful silvery tones.

Being a glass half full kinda gal I choose to believe there is someone else out of screen shot in this image ;)

Beautiful image, thought provoking…

fantastic work

amazing ..powerfull work,,congrats!

Great work, really sets a mood, well done!

~Shepy

Such an awesome image, love the subtle blue tones and the whole image is very reminiscent of a religious experience combined with Saw, the complete antithesis of each other

it’s …

surrender.

to both helplessness and the possibility of uplifting.

(that’s so sitting on the fence i know but it’s what i see)

What a fantastic image, one of the best I have seen.

wow!

what I find so evocative is the hands being hidden, so my imagination takes this image where I want it to go – which is surrender. And oooh, in a perfect world – with such a masculine form as this – those wrists are restrained so his surrender is at the mercy of the imaginary someone you can’t see in the image.

The light on the musculature is in all the right places and my eye keeps focusing on the hair on the chest…which I stared at soooo long I started to see the shape of a tree, branching and blossoming upward.

I admit, I had lascivious thoughts. That, fair warning, is where my mind tends to go.

Bravo…love this one!

The mood and set of this shot really does it for me…before I read the last comment, I was feeling very similarly and the first thing I noticed was the tree on your chest …
this a total MAN shot – the posture is very magnetic .. powerful and vulnerable, raw masculinity

Yes I am….

Stunning image!

I see you put a lot of thought into this well done , great result !

great image

love the ambiguity/strength/surrender, especially the dark tones…

Paul, I gotta say I keep getting drawn back to your photos where you so unabashedly share your body with the lens (including those of Mel Brackstone)-I admire the openness and honesty (and the jealous cynic in me says, ‘yeah, how hard would it be with a body that fit and masculine?’ and the artist in me just admires). I have not seen any facial portrait of you, however, and I wonder if there’s a paradox going on-whereas some are free with their face and its expressive nature, I’ve seen you here more free with everything BUT your face. Leaves me wondering how one of those b/w, dof, high-contrasty portraits of you would look . . . As deep as your comments and work are, I’d love to see how it’s all expressed in your face!

LOL – here I am with the talented Mel Brackstone:
http://www.redbubble.com/people/paul/journal/1148547-mel-brackstone-visits-melbourne
and, she has been trying to persuade me with such portrait you described above…
The thing is, i don’t consider myself an oil painting in body or face… but, for some reason, use my body to express and art piece, sometimes cause I’m the only person available as most of my images can use the female or male body as the main subject…
Also, I like your statement on using the body as paradox – had this discussion with the talented Jo O’Brien too… i guess when you are naked flesh and body you are presented your whole self with nothing to hide… portraits with clothes or faces can mask a facade… also I think the body is more expressive…. Thanks for your kind words… and I believe Mel will be getting her face portrait soon (she is persistent)....
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Paul…............all I can is WOW….........Thank YOU so much for sharing your talent as well as yourself :) :)
Just LOVE it!!!!

sometimes you have to go through a persons gallery a few times….i missed this…its a treasure
i realise just how amazing you are

The tones,lighting are just lovely

Vulnerable yet Oozing with strength ~ BTW I luv ur body of work on here!