It's been a bit since I posted. I was away for 4 days at the Southern Humanities Conference in Greenville, SC. The conference was WONDERFUL! Such a great group of humanities scholars. The theme this year was "Real, Artificial, and Superficial". I presented a paper about the nature of hallucinations and how using the term "hallucination" for a factual mistake that AI makes is a complete misnomer. I also heard two papers that alluded to the term "aura" (coined by Walter Benjamin), as it relates to authenticity in artwork. VERY interesting. Anyway since I have been back, I have been mostly experimenting and exploring in my studio, rather than getting any pieces completed. I think it is a natural cycle that I go through. I am starting to get to the point where I will complete several projects soon. I continue to work on the composition which will include covering up the skull transfer that "went bad". I will be using a "punched-out" circle element in this piece and wanted to share a fortuitous and beautiful serendipitous event that happened. I had made several punched-out circle elements from this page of The Art Journal (circa 1878) to cover-up the female sculpture taken from the same page (to match the gray patina). I didn't realize until last night, that the subtle variegation in the element matched perfectly (and beautifully) with the pelvis curve of the sculptural element. This serendipitous and unintentional event will absolutely enhance this overall composition... and I couldn't be happier.
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