STRAWBERRY CAP Photograph

My work is a mixture of photography, photo-maipulation ,and digital painting.The idea behind the work at it's most basic level is the diversity of mankind. The complexity and the total lack of absolutes. Everyone of us is completely different. And within each individual are even more differences ...Yet we all have the exact same things . Two eyes , a nose , a mouth, lips , and heart emotions. We are the same. So , to my thinking , at it's most abstract level , the work represents the 'GOD' quotient! Only an intelli- gent being could create life with with such wit! So what I do is create a canvas out of a human face , and on to it , it project my sensibilities , aesthetic, fantasies, social , political , cultural , and religious ideas . I love to juxtapose the colors black and white , as well as African and Japan- ese cultures . To prove that both black and white are absolutely gorgeous. We have, as a world community got to stop separating ourselves. We have to stop fostering self hatred in people of color,and promoting lies about race , and cult- ture . The truth is , that within every possible demographic of society lies the entire gamut of the human experience. the are intellects , half wits, lairs ,and truth tellers geniuses and mentally impaired there are the frail and the powerful , the kind and the cruel. There is no one group among us the do not posses all the good and bad of being human . For that matter , there is no one person , that do not posses this multidimensionalism. So why do we lie? Now , that said. I also believe that art does not always have to be profound , sometimes it's 'just because' , or 'why not?' , or it's fun or beautiful and that's all , take from it what you will. -Eve Harlowe