Famous quote from Jean-Michel Basquiat:
"I start a picture and I finish it. I don't think about art while I work. I try to think about life"
I don't think about art either while I take photographs. I try to think about life too, and with that, some of you who have been following me regularly might know that this month my muse (and in doing so he is my creative inspiration for the month) is the famous artist Jean-Michel Basquiat. The other day I mentioned that I had a dream
Basquiat and Andy Warhol dream! and after it I came away with the fact that to pay homage to him I really needed to also try to create something new in his style. This is one of the photographs that I came up with yesterday:
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| The Chase |
The above is just one of the images that I created from things that I saw whilst going for a walk and seeing life which I might otherwise not have done had I not had him as my inspiration for the month!
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| trompe l'oeil |
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| Basilisk stare |
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| Stalker |
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| The shadow |
I love the magnifying glass on my old Kodak Duaflex, it reminds me of the old 1950's TV screens. The camera needs fixing to get film to work through it, but I still like the pictures you see through the window and not the lens.
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| Walk like an Egyptian |
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| Sparkle |
The best window of all though is the one I carry about with me everywhere.
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| Prisoners of the eye |
I love the changing reflective colours of the sea and the way the waves ebb and flow
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| Big blue |
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| Deep |
Anika set a challenge at ACoLab. Her challenge was to go to Page 25 of a magazine and let it provide inspiration! She did say it could literally be page 25 or to use whatever was on that page to inspire. I have mainly been reading books, and every magazine I flicked through for some reason featured a full page advert on page 25! I didn't find the adverts inspiring that I came across so I decided to make my own adverts instead!
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| So easy a robot could make it. |
Basquiat is my muse for February and I am loving it.
Prompt words were: Activity, Water, Quote, Window and Page 25 of a magazine.
Hope you can see which photograph fits each prompt!
This is what I and my family get up to!
