Second in the Cutout Series sees a portrait of Ernesto Repetto. The top piece having been deconstructed for the cover of our February 16, 2010 DJ Mix. When I write deconstructed I actually mean that the pieces are scanned from a jumble in the comic book boarded bag they are stored in.

Although Ernesto is not a fan of this piece, I am. It’s not necessarily my best composition. The angle of the head is strange with all that background. But it still gets the right feeling I was trying to achieve.

Once again it’s about torturing the concept of foreground and background. When edges meet that should be clear delineations between two different tones I would rather have a blurring. A fight for your eye and mind.

These ideas from the Cutout Series are also present in the Street Paint, Street Paper and Shredded series (an upcoming series of posts). Which is why I am posting the digital photography and older  pieces like these. I want to give an overview and chronology of how I got where I am today.

The academic precision of the MAZE Series seems distant but not really. It was a test to see where to go next. More importantly, it was to see if I could actually achieve more with the aid of a machine.

The current project is on hold for the moment. I felt I needed to take some time off and build up a series of posts that would allow me more time to work. Rather than losing the time to anxiety over not posting on the site.

In these two pieces there are moments I adore. The red grid contrasting the molten metal runs in the positive piece. The upside down pale girl in the negative piece quietly going in for a kiss.

All these pieces feel like maps of continents not from our planet. A bit of cartography from dreams.