144 - Ania in Three

144 - Ania in Three
Originally uploaded by gingerpig2000

I have really got behind in my blogging, just too much work going on - plus there has been plenty of action on the multiplayer internet game I play.

This is a triptych, actually three seperate images, that I have been working on for home display initially. I wanted bol, bright, a combination of techniques past and present, and not something I was trying to copy from other people's work - although the influence of previous contact, concious or not, is obvious.

This is Ania and this is part of the city that has been built while she has been living - 1970s in the background and the naughties in the foreground. Two different eras.

I could have arrange the image differently so that the crop cut different on Ania's head, but I don't want that purity of separation - body/legs/feet. Getting that purity in life is often the sign of something artificial, either in the physical world or the way we perceive the physical.

For example, Communism did not start promptly in 1945 and finish in 1989 - things from the near and distant past hang on either in the real world because it is impractical to remake everything overnight, and in people's thinking. So, most people live in housing from another political era, some still desire to escape back there, some are still trying to escape it. Nothing is fully translucent.