quinta-feira, 26 de agosto de 2010

holly roberts vs arcade fire


- arcade fire -
(neighborhood #2 [laika])



holly roberts

My work challenges the traditional format of the photograph. I use my own black and white photographs as the ground for heavily overpainted, etched, scraped and smeared images. My work evokes the long and complex interrelationship between paintings and photography wherein each medium has irrevocably influenced the other. In many instances, my original photograph is scarely discernible beneath the layers of oil paint. However, it is this photographic image that allows me to begin the process of trying to understand where it is that I need to go. In attempting to understand complicated issues of my own personal history that have to do with fear, anxiety, loneliness, humor, love and the interconnectedness of living beings, I find myself creating images that are as simple and honest as I can make them.


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- holly roberts -
(current)


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- holly roberts -
(jumper)


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- holly roberts -
(big girl)


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- holly roberts -
(dog w spots)


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- holly roberts -
(fenix)


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- holly roberts -
(cow with black clouds)


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- holly roberts -
(woman being chased)


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- holly roberts -
(bob in mexico)


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- holly roberts -
(small wolf with forest)


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- holly roberts -
(child with storm)


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- holly roberts -
(horse being led)


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- holly roberts -
(frightened child)


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- holly roberts -
(deer dancer)


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- holly roberts -
(man with greyhound [and pink legs])


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- holly roberts -
(bob singing)


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- holly roberts -
(walking bird)


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- holly roberts -
(man sleeping inside himself)


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- holly roberts -
(leaving the cemetary)


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- holly roberts -
(breach)


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- holly roberts -
(giants)


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- holly roberts -
(angel w/ storm)


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- holly roberts -
(boy with dirt)


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- holly roberts -
(swimmer)


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- holly roberts -
(two children playing)


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- holly roberts -
(bird with hand)


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- holly roberts -
(woman drinking)

terça-feira, 24 de agosto de 2010

vinicius de moraes vs the middle east

uma noite do rio

trata-se, quero supor, de um gesto simpático de hollywood,
em relação a nós. a gente assiste aquela patacoada toda,
vê efêmeras paisagens cariocas, fica furioso de saber como
carmen miranda procede, e sai em branca nuvem.
o filme em si não vale nada. é uma velha, velhíssima histó-
ria de cinema falado, que chevalier já fez, e que tem sido
milhares de vezes repisada. carmen miranda aparece como
qualquer coisa de exótico, agreste, escarlate. fala e faz
mais trejeitos que um esquizofrênico sob um choque de car-
diasol. pensando bem, carmen miranda é um hindu, mais que
uma brasileira. são turbantes coloridos, braços como ser-
pentes, mãos como cabeças de najas.
é tão prodigioso, que carmen miranda não consegue apenas
ser o hindu - consegue ser o hindu e a serpente, coisa que
em matéria iogue é da mais alta importância.
[...]

- vinicius de moraes -
(a manhã, 1941)


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- the middle east -
(blood)