Here is some new mixed media collage artwork I am currently working on..Been able to spend a few hours listening to Nommo Ogo and creating stuff.
http://youtu.be/gsyAMNmlypM
I went to see Nommo Ogo and Wolves in The Throne Room with tiernan and a few of his friends at the Echolplex and I was so stoked to witness them live. Nommo Ogo went on first, recordings and video do them no justice, live they are a powerful atmospheric almost mystical entity. The environment the band controls and performs in has a big influence on the performance. The echoplex itself was like entering a dark cave, minimal illumination, being visually deprived of details allowed one to conjure up images of their own devices. The constant other worldly sounds coming from the speakers between the bands performances and the black shadows of other patrons their faces veiled in the dark helps transport you into a otherworldly performance space. And WITTR was as powerful and heavy as the last time we saw them 2 years ago. Great evening!
Fascinating and provocative Tom...
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ReplyDeleteBeen busy in the garage trying out new backgrounds..distressing the surfaces with files and sandpaper and adding washes of watercolor and then ink splatters and drawing over it all with graphite pencil and pens. hope alls well
Gold as always Tommy! Just watched some video of Nommo Ogo and can see and hear where some of your inspiration would come from, sort of trippy and different for sure. Whats the meaning of the lettering running down the side of his mop in the last picture, its the same in the previous picture above?
ReplyDeleteThanks adam, it was a cool evening watching that band. The symbols im using in some of the images im making are alchemical symbols also known as a Philosophers stone or wheel. It was a science that was used in the Middle Ages with the goal of changing ordinary metals into gold and also later symbols that were thought to have a power or process that changes or transforms something in a mysterious or impressive way! I also like the way the symbols look.
ReplyDeleteThese are the symbols im using in the images are Sulpher, Mercury/quicksilver, silver/moon, venus/copper, sun/gold, mars/iron, saturn/lead. These symbols also used in astrology, a lot of artwork from the past dealing with spiritual and religious ideas used these ideas and symbols to supposedly get closer to an understanding of our place in the universe.
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