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Richard Arfsten

United States

Printmaking, Digital on Canvas

Size: 40 W x 32 H x 0.1 D in

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This is what future spam looks like on your personal communication device. When your shift is over on the space craft you can have a virtual encounter adventure with a person of your design where you fill out a questionnaire and the service will inject you into the scenario. Kind of like watching a movie where you get to play one of the parts. There is a universal bar code on the bottom that explains everything automatically for all communication languages. There is another add that is similar to this one for it's sister company. Kind of like cornering the market. I once worked for a man who had 10 adds in the yellow pages telephone book. They were all for different companies that were just phones in his office. You thought you were getting bids from three different companies and he controlled them all. Pretty sneaky and effective and it was legal and it worked. Mono prints are really really a lot of fun to make because it is so hard to control the process. This is where you apply ink on a printing plate and press a piece of paper into the ink. There is a lot of chance in the process because only a portion of the ink transfers from the printing plate where the ink is applied to the paper. I make a lot of monoprints because of the excitement of not being in complete control. Sort of like driving in a fog without the danger of getting hurt. Then when you arrive at your destination and the fog lifts you get to see where you are at. This is where you open the sandwich of paper and print plate. If you like it you are done. If you don’t you let it dry and add to the work over and over until you are happy with the result. These designs are photographed and are kept in my library of designs which I use as source materials for future compositions. This is my library of visual history that I use to tell a visual story. These designs are used laminated over each in the final collage as the first and second or more building blocks as I combine them digitally. Then I draw more elements digitally to come up with a final collage design or should I say a visual story. As I am doing this process a little narrative develops in my mind that I try expand on as I work. I try to hint at the explanation in the title. I usually add a border to give the feeling of looking into time forward or backward so the viewer is a voyeur into my imagination. The end result is a digital collage which I can sell at a reasonable price.

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Printmaking:Digital on Canvas

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:40 W x 32 H x 0.1 D in

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I have an ambitious approach to life ... and to art ... make something happen every day ... but most of all have fun doing it! A sculptor first, and now working in 2D, I do my best to do just that. Presented here are examples of some of my work. •• My sculpture runs the gamut from abstract, to figurative, to architectural. The materials and methods used are diverse ... from figures modeled in clay or wax, then cast in pewter or bronze ... to aluminum maquettes (produced by evaporative pattern casting) which serve as the 3D blueprints for the pieces that are enlarged and fabricated from sheet metal of all kinds. •• My 2D pieces range from abstract to figurative. You’ll find Originals done in oils or acrylic, one-of-a-kind monotypes, collages, mixed media paintings, and more ... I love working in all mediums. Some of my 2D work may be available as reproductions on this site. ••• MY FASCINATION WITH SCIENCE FICTION & MAKE BELIEVE - When I was in second grade, television was new and the hottest thing. The "Adventures of Flash Gordon" was my favorite program. There was only one kid in the neighborhood who had a TV. We, all the kids, gathered at his house for every episode. I was a huge fan of the characters. Flash was cool and my hero. Dale Arden was OK but Princess Aura was way cooler because she was naughty. Ming The Mercilous was very interesting. But Dr. Zarkov and his super duper telescope - that could see into time forwards and backwards, far and near - was the star of the show for me. The spaceship was really hoakey. You could see the wire that it was traveling on and the little puffs of smoke coming out of it were a joke, even for me. But the concept of the show was magical. Also at that time there were radio shows about space travel and aliens and monsters. I would listen to those shows with my grandfather as I sat on the floor next to the big wooden box radio so I could get the full impact of the sounds. •• These shows inspired me to draw spaceships, mostly "new and improved" versions of Flash's ship. I taped them all over my bedroom walls. At night I would travel with Flash. We would go to distant parts of the Universe and explore ancient ruins - like what I saw in National Geographic when I was not looking at the bare-breasted girls of exotic cultures. (I think artists and sculptors, are to a large part, voyeurs.) Those memories pop up in my art over and over. •• Faces also intrigue and inspire me.

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