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Artist Francisco Del Mar
Los Angeles, California USA
Ephemera 2
Mixed Media
Artist Statement
This piece is a series exploration and meditation on media – digital or otherwise – vying to assert meaning and relevance. This series focuses on the information of zeitgeist relentlessly spawned by society, laying claim to popularity and importance, and could be in the form of memes, cultural icons, news, or Twitter commentary.
Not so much concerned by the actual content of such pieces of information, I’m drawn to the tension and irony presented between them, and how they play off each other either visually or textually. This piece collages several health/life-style magazine covers, two of which present images of an adult male and female. It reminds me of the familiar thrust of the physical ideal against aging and time.
The images collected are broken apart digitally using Photoshop. Pieces of which are transferred to canvas or wood, then subject to scraping, chemical erasing, smearing, layering of more image fragments and paint. It has been a back and forth process where sometimes original images are completely lost and then partially revealed again. I have been exploring manual paint application as analog pixels via squares or rectangles. The use of paint, whether brushed or smeared, has added physicality to the experience melding and forging visual elements.
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