Masquerade Artwork

In 2014, shortly after this was made, I wrote this comment: "The dancers in the background were inspired by the Spring Finale Show hosted by House of Shapes, Stockholm just a couple of weeks ago. [It's a fitness and dancing school.] There were mostly groups performing from this institute, very few solos. They had kids,dancing a little but delightfully out of synch. The more mature ensembles showed due personality among their ranks -- it was the teenagers' groups that danced the really eerie parts: They looked very impressive, but the perfect collectivity of their movements made many of those groups feel like relentlessly perfect dancing machines, their members marionettes of sorts. I wanted to pull a few strings, see what happened..." The work is fully digital save for the white outlines (look closely!) that are inverted scanned pencil drawings. I wanted to convey the feeling of darkness, mystery and limelight -- or so I think. Digital colours with the endless choice of hues (perfect for prints) does well for depth (and those eerily straight puppet strings) but white pencil added the life and organic forms necessary for this composition.

Mixed Media:Digital on Paper

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:12 W x 12 H x 0.1 D in

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