Tréboles de buena suerte. Clovers of good luck

Tréboles de buena suerte. Clovers of good luck by Myriam B. Mahiques is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.

Escala Humana

Coloso. Pintura digital de Myriam B. Mahiques.

El turista disfrutaba de su tour por las ciudades más populares de Europa; o más bien se divertía posando frente a enormes edificios, cuya grandiosidad pétrea, él comparaba con su propia Shangai. En complicados ideogramas, meditaba que si los antiguos habían erigido sus templos hacia el cielo de los dioses, pues ellos también, y no tenían qué envidiarles.

Su ansiedad fotográfica, lo llevó luego a los pies del coloso, quien en un leve instante se le manifestó en su escala rotunda; y fue así que el turista, sintiendo su cuerpo absolutamente empequeñecido, derramó lágrimas por las civilizaciones perdidas.

http://theclubofcompulsivereaders.blogspot.com/

Nota al 7 de mayo de 2013:

He encontrado un excelente ejemplo para ilustrar este microrrelato, y demostrar la grandeza de las esculturas frente a la escala humana; se trata de una turista que toca los fragmentos de la escultura de Constantino en Roma, en diciembre de 1962. La foto pertenece a Robert Sisson y ha sido publicada en National Geographic.com

Orchid 2. Orquídea 2

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Desmembramiento del monstruo. The monster´s dismemberment

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Ghost tree. Árbol fantasma

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Vuelta de Rocha

This is my digital intervention on a vintage picture of Vuelta de Rocha, in the Riachuelo of La Boca, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Esta es mi intervención digital sobre una fotografía de antaño de la Vuelta de Rocha, en el Riachuelo de la Boca de Buenos Aires, Argentina.

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Elephant with moon. Elefante con luna

This is a symmetric elephant. Though I tried to paint the head on the left side I still think that the elephant´s head is on the right side. You choose. 

The moon is pursuing him. Yeah, it´s a male.

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Overpopulation in the world. Superpoblación en el mundo

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Flor y hojas de calabaza. Butternut squash´s flower and leaves. Version 1

Flor y hojas de calabaza. Butternut squash´s flower and leaves. Version 1 by Myriam B. Mahiques is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.

Asentamiento ilegal en Buenos Aires. Illegal settlement in Buenos Aires

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Aleppo. A sinking city. Aleppo, una ciudad que se hunde

My digital intervention on a picture of the medieval city of Aleppo. The original picture was downloaded from worldtv.com

¨A huge fire has destroyed parts of the medieval souks in Aleppo, Syria, following raging battles between rebels and government troops.

The city is a Unesco world heritage site and the labyrinth of narrow alleys and shops was once a major tourist attraction and is one of Syria's largest commercial hubs.

Over the past two months, the city, home to 2.5 million people, has become a focus of the insurgency against Bashar al-Assad's regime, with near daily fighting and shelling.¨

http://myriammahiques.blogspot.com/2012/09/the-destruction-of-aleppo-syria-unesco.html

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Asentamiento en la nieve. Settlement in the snow

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Harpo 5 and Harpo 6. My Grey Pop art?

I´ve been exercising with these intertwined images called ¨Harpo 5¨ and ¨Harpo 6¨. And it was by chance that I came across with the article at Frieze Magazine that shows an illustration by Thomas Bayrle. They define the style as Pop Art or Grey Pop.  

Thomas Bayrle, Sloping Loafers/Smooth (2012)

¨Thomas Bayrle has been working since the mid-sixties and is now recognized as key figure in European ‘Pop Art’, sometimes referred to as Grey Pop. In Bayrle’s work, single units are replicated and stretched into a mass, describing a world suspended between positive collectivism and deadening uniformity. His varied practice has spanned painting, sculpture, fashion and graphic design. For Frieze Projects, Bayrle will present two patterned works along the entrance to the fair and in the public squares using designs originally conceived in 1967, derived from pairs of loafers in traffic- light colours and the Laughing Cow motif from the French processed cheese brand.¨

http://friezefoundation.org/commissions/detail/thomas-bayrle/

I´m not sure that my Harpos 5 and 6 could be labeled as Grey Pop, given my process is absolutely different. Yes I do have in common the replicated units, but they are not the same and my painting is more chaotic....

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Isolated buildings in a green landscape. Edificios aislados en un paisaje verde

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Blue birds. Pájaros azules

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River under the bridge. Río bajo el puente

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Haussmann block (filtered). Manzana de Haussmann (filtrada)

I was playing with a picture of one of Haussmann´s block in Paris, and this is the result: it´s much more organic now.

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Colorful rays. Rayos coloridos

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Cabeza de buitre. Vulture's head

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The long wait. La larga espera

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Hipnótico. Hypnotic

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Theseus and the Minotaur. Teseo y el Minotauro

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Drawing in gray 1. Dibujo en gris 1

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