My inner eye, as of late, is continually conjuring up images with a certain timeless prose and mechanical sub plot. As I sketch out my thoughts, I feel the images should be somewhere between painter Brian Hoover's Fantastic Hat series and the work of photographer Rodney Smith.
Brian's series are striking and have such a wonderful depth to them. Aside from his impeccable technique, the design, the detail and compositional structure are paramount features of the series. Features that pop into my mind as I sketch. As Far as Mr. Smith goes, his images take on the face of a frozen period between industrial revolution and "The Great Gatsby".
As I further delved into the black abyss that is my artistic muse, I remembered while interviewing a girl for a professor of photography position, she mentioned the influence of on her work by the artists Robert and Shana Parkeharrison. Robert and Shana build a world much like Brian and Rodney do but they add a element of earth, and a sort of carnal desire to be apart of it.
The Parkeharrison's work is corollary to everything I have been building on paper, except mine would supersede their element of earth and replace it with a mechanical or steam-punk like tone.
The more I think about these ideas I become more and more terrified of what I have laid out on paper and the impossible task ahead of me. Damn you afflatus!
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