This was a spontaneous shot taken at a local Adelaide cafe on Rundle Street East in Kent Town one day when I was out with Dan. It was included in the series ‘When He’s Away’ and was a part of the ‘Living Queer in Adelaide’ group exhibition for the 2006 Feast Arts Festival there (Exibited at the Town Hall) I really like this one – human body against unyielding cement wall and rigid geometric lines. The theme that I was working on with the shots in this series was an analysis and exploration of sexuality – but more specifically gay male sexuality and the universal themes relating to the divide between public and private, acceptibility and unacceptibility, connection and disconnection, and of course human vulnerability / sensitivity and the structures and systems which confine or limit this. Image copyright © 2007, Robert Knapman. Copying and displaying or redistribution of this image without permission from the artist is strictly prohibited.
This is from a series I produced a few years ago in my homemade, primitive yet functional darkroom. Sadly, my enlarger now lives in the bottom of a cupboard :(
This was painted in Photo Shop on a blank file set at 300 dpi. This painting is NOT photo generated or photo manipulation. This Is Mitch. He is my creation. He is was born in Venice Italy. His mother is Italian his father… well your just going to have to wait till I get his first chapter written. His family moved to the states , NYC, when he was 6. / After his father died his mother (never very caring in the first place) took off and he was left alone to bury his father at the age of 9. The only thing of value he had was a black Journal. After reading it Mitch finds out he is much more than just human. The continence of the journal was the history of his grandfather. Not wanting what happened to his grandfather to happen to him, Mitch takes to the streets. He spent his time growing up on the streets where he met an old blues player who taught him to play a guitar and sing the blues. That’s how he got money, singing on the streets and in joints. With his deep soulful voice and good looks getting a gig was easy. But it wasn’t enough, not for the life he wanted. / So being Italian… It was easy for him to find “other” work. He had learned to knife fight on the streets and became quite good. Then he hooks up with a small time drug lord and so it begins his true life of crime, soon Mitch becomes the right arm man for one of the biggest Mobsters in NYC…… Later , at the height of his success, just 18 Mitch unknowingly kills the Godfather’s nephew in a jealous rage, now he’s their target. / / Copyright / These Images and Writings Do Not Belong To ANY Public Domain. All images and Writing are copyright © Patricia Anne McCarty & Deep Red Tiger Images 2009. All Rights Reserved. Copying, altering, displaying or redistribution of any of these images or Writings without written permission from the artist is strictly prohibited. / Hombres Fatal / Villains and Villainess / Air Brush Art
ball-point pen on paper this design on shirts: / /
Piece Two in my HSC body of Work. The series in total is called “Ascendancy” which means domination or influincing figure, but also has connotations to the ascention of Mary in Christianity. Basically what i tried to do was to show how humanity’s expression of faith has changed, evolved, or even stayed the same. “The Temptation” refers to the temptation of Christ by the devil (40 nights in the desert, etc) Compressed Charcoal on Paper / size: approx. 80×40 cms I would like to thank the wonderful photographer who allowed me to use his brilliant photographs as references throughout the series: mehmet turgut . His page on DeviantART is (http://mehmeturgut.deviantart.com/) and the link to the particular photo for this piece is (http://mehmeturgut.deviantart.com/art/gravity-part-2b-26768855)
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Ok, as some of you know, I’ve had a pretty rough time recently and have taken up ‘mindfulness’. I completely lost my way just before I went away and wanted to use the 2 weeks to refresh my spirit. I took a load of books away with me and one was ‘The Monk who sold his Ferrari’. For those of you who may not know, it’s about an American multi-millionnaire lawyer who breaks down through stress and the pressure of life. He sells up everything and finds peace with the monks in India. He then comes back and shares the 7 virtues of life with others. This book is my bible and I truly believe in it. I’d just finished reading it when we went to Carcassonne. I could feel my soul being mended slowly and knew I’d found my path again. I walked into the medieval city and bumped into a friend from England who I hadn’t seen for quite a while. Weird enough. I then turned a corner and saw this man meditating, doing yoga and balancing crystals with some awesome music playing in the background. He was the book personified and he sent me a real message. This may sound corny but I strongly believe that these things are happening because the time is right and the messages are leading me to where I belong…. /
Painting the tattoo was a challenge! / This painting has been featured in the Red Bubble groups Hombres Fatal and Japanfluence /
Lovers in a tantric embrace Winner of Alt Groups New avatar Challenge 3/09/2009
The image The Advantages of Schizophrenia has been nominated for the prestigous Pay it Forward Group by Butchart “in one image.. you have covered a range of emotions nearly impossible to achieve together…. and in the process have given us a glimpse of the human condition……. thank you……. this is incredible work roy….. one of my all time favorites of yours……… bravo……….b” / Roy is fairly new to Redbubble… but from the moment i discovered his work i have been in awe of his inpired, unique, honest and elightened imagery. Each one of his images demands both attention and reflection. In Roy’s self portraits he shares with us all the myriad of emotions each one of us experiences within ourselves.”Thanks for stopping by and look into my world for a minute. Thank you so much Butchart :) View large for details. Both persons are myself shot in one take with long exposure. Inspired by King Crimson – 21st Century Schizoid Man Lyrics Cats foot iron claw / Neuro-surgeons scream for more / At paranoias poison door. / Twenty first century schizoid man. Blood rack barbed wire / Polititians funeral pyre / Innocents raped with napalm fire / Twenty first century schizoid man. Death seed blind mans greed / Poets starving children bleed / Nothing hes got he really needs / Twenty first century schizoid man. From a series where I work to express the deepest emotions, both positive and “negative”. Armed with my Nikon D300 and a flashlight. I try to keep the Photoshop-work to a minimum to not loose the ethereal energy the method some times captures. This is my way to healing and selfrealization. If my work can give something to an other human being it is twice worth the effort.
Need critique on this. Opinions. Hit me ! From a series I shot today. A bit fresh. I normally waits a while before posting, but felt like any way. Premature i know. This is a composite Enlighten in a flash / From a series where I work to express the deepest emotions, both positive and “negative”. Inspired by linaji . / Lina inspired me to post this work today. Thank you Lina just for being the lovely person you are. And inspired by Tom Waits – London 04 – Sins of my Father / You need to see hear and read this sing !! :) —-—-—-—-—-—- / Lyrics God said don’t give me your / Tin horn prayers / Don’t buy roses off the street down there / Took it all and took the dirt road home / Dreaming of Jenny with the light brown hair / Night is falling like a bloody axe / Lies and rumors and the wind at my back / Hand on the wheel gravel on the road / Will the pawn shop sell me back what I sold I’m gonna take the sins of my father / I’m gonna take the sins of my mother / I”m gonna take the sins of my brother / Down to the pond Birds cry warning from a hidden branch / Carving out a future with a gun and an axe / I’m way beyond the gavel and the laws of man / Still living in the palm of the grace of your hand / The worlds not easy the blind man said / Turns on nothing but money and dread / Dogs been scratching at the door all nite / Long neck birds flying out of the moon light I’m gonna take the sins of my father / I’m gonna take the sins of my mother / I”m gonna take the sins of my brother / Down to the pond Smack dab in the middle of a dirty lie / The star spangled glitter of his one good eye / Everybody knows that the game was rigged / Justice wears suspenders and a powdered wig / Dark town alleys been hiding you / Long bell tolling is your waterloo / Oh baby what can you do / Does the light of god blind you / Or lead the way home for you? I’m gonna take the sins of my father / I’m gonna take the sins of my mother / I”m gonna take the sins of my brother / Down to the pond God all mighty for righteousness sake / Humiliation of our fallen state / Written in the book of tubold Cain / A long black over coat will show no stain / Feel the heat and the burn on your back / The rip and the moan and the stretch of the rack / All my belongings in a flour sack / Will the place I come from / Take me back I’m gonna take the sins of my father / I’m gonna take the sins of my mother / I”m gonna take the sins of my brother / Down to the pond They’ll hang me in the morning on a scaffold yea big / To dance upon nothing to the tyborn jig / Treats you like a puppet when your under its spell / Oh the heart is heaven / But the mind is hell / Jesus of Nazareth told Mike of the weeds / I’s born at this time for a reason you see / When I’m dead I”ll be dead a long time / But the wines so pleasing and so sublime I’m gonna take the sins of my father / I’m gonna take the sins of my mother / I”m gonna take the sins of my brother / Down to the pond Kissed my sweetheart by the chinaball tree / Everything I done is between God and me / Only he will judge how my time was spent / 29 days of sinning and 40 to repent / The horse is steady but the horse is blind / Wicked are the branches on the tree of mankind / The roots grow upwared and the branches grow down / Its much too late to throw the dice again I’ve found I’m gonna take the sins of my father / I’m gonna take the sins of my mother / I”m gonna take the sins of my brother / Down to the pond I’m gonna wash them [2x] / I’m gonna wash the sins of my Father / I’m gonna wash the sins of my Mother / I’m gonna wash the sins of my Brother / Till the water runs clear [2x] —-—-—-—-— / I love Tom Waits, don´t you? :) This is my way to healing and selfrealization. If my work can give something to an other human being it´s many times worth the effort. Thanks for stopping by and look into my weird world for a minute. ...roy
I want to thank Paul V for being such an amazing model! You are such a delight to work with! xox Vonne The end is simply a new beginning. We shed the shell that is our body and are transformed to pure energy as we return home.
A sculpture on exhibit at the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, DC that captures a child’s attention. The artist is Ron Mueck, whose sculptures faithfully reproduce the minute detail of the human body, but play with scale to produce disconcertingly jarring visual images. This sculpture is part of an exhibition called Strange Bodies and its permanent home is now in DC at the Hirshhorn. CHALLENGE WINNER of the top 10 in Good News Group-Oct. 09 / TOP 10 CHALLENGE placement in JPG Cast-Offs – Oct. 09 / TOP 10 CHALLENGE placement in Photography Challenge Group – Oct. 09 / FEATURED in the group This is Relevant – Oct. 09 / FEATURED in the group Dimensions – Sept. 09. / FEATURED in the group Speaking Photos – Sept. 09 / AVATAR for the group Images & Ideas (thank you!) Sept. 09 / CHALLENGE WINNER of the top 10 in Speaking Photos-Sept. 09 / TWO TOP 10 CHALLENGE placements in Mood & Ambience – Sept. 09 1347 views as of 11/25/09
/ Shot by the wonderful Clare McClelland on location at her wonderful, expansive property. /
Original oil painting produced on stretched 91cm x 61cm canvas using a knife, mixing only on the canvas using a limited colour palette.There’s many more figurative, dance and portrait fine art original oil paintings, pastels and gicleé prints on my website: ryoung-art
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