Is that your Id? Or are you just unhappy to see me? Photograph

About MANO For all the absurdity and the silliness that galavants throughout his/her? profile MANO does exist. They are a person, they do create pieces of Art and they do so seriously and with a passion. If you like the pieces in this profile it warms our heart, it makes us happy -if you purchase a piece please believe us when we say that we want that purchase to make you as happy as it has made us. If you have any questions (as a buyer or a viewer) please don't hesitate to ask them. About the PIECES I hesitate to call myself an "artist" -it puts me in with a lofty class of individuals a membership with whom I don't feel capable of justifying. Most of these pieces are created with the use of photographs and digital painting and illustration. I will stress that, I myself, have had difficulty taking the medium seriously, but ultimately have concluded that my skepticism was in error. I have painted using the conventional tools of the trade: the brush, the palette, the light, pastels, watercolors, oils and their varied and distinguished brethren. A digital creation may not buttress its citadels with the same elements as an oil painting, but the foundations of both fortresses are similar if not identical. The inspiration, the need, the eye, the balance and composition in both conventional artistic mediums and the digital medium are brothers. So, that said I find that the only difficulty one encounters in presenting digital Art to a purchasing public is the difference (however slight) that may exist between the digital original and its eventual physical manifestations. All my pieces have been designed with the physical form of Duratrans printing, framed with light-box in mind. Before you begin envisaging busstop adverts a blaze in neon-lite nightmare, please understand that this process is as subtle as it is expensive. You can read more about it online (www.duratrans.com). These prints and their custom frames bring out the technical, robotic-themed presence I had in mind as well as delivering the light the way I saw it as opposed to the way the resolution and settings of a particular monitor or printer sees it. That being said, I have experimented with fine Art paper and canvas and both examples are still hanging around the house. -we are happy with them, especially when it comes to target practice. So, in short, if you're not happy about the way a particular print and frame came out kindly let me know.