Direction. Guidance and doctrine. How do you trust who points the way? Who to ignore. An ideal, oral ritual passed in voice. A gesture. A helping hand, with a snake lurking in the sleeve. Trusting blindly, we become lambs to slaughter.
CROS(s)ES ‘(Traffic) Sign of the…’ (10)
[DIGITAL ARTWORK, 2023]
‘Manipulated existing imagery and type into a graphic crucifix layout.’
IMAGE SOURCES:
Scratches: iStock 1050646758.
TYPEFACES:
(Artwork Text) ‘Transport’ by Jock Kinneir, Margaret Calvert and published by URW Type Foundry.
(Logotype) ‘Kern’ by Pizza Typefaces.
IMAGE DESCRIPTION:
A rounded Green rectangle with White border, on top of two metal poles, depicting a White crucifix-style cross with text above in a sans-serif type reading “Father 1C 86”, to the right “Son M1616” and in a White box to the right “Holy Spirit M 118”, with a Red National Rail icon rotated 90°, all on a Black background.
When walking, signs can be everywhere. From decaying roadkill - warning of the inevitability and fragility of life. To a burning bush - a message from a higher power. Cognition is great isn’t it? Minds see outside of reality. Building upon image. Making image. Creating culture. Legacy. It is int his struggle, that relativity is born. Understanding beyond the sense. Connection. Community. Audience. Where is yours?
Using Adobe Photoshop’s Content-Aware Fill (Edit>Content-Aware Fill).
CONTENT-AWARE FILL IMG_6055
[DIGITAL ARTWORK, 2023]
‘Bespoke imagery, rasterised, sampled, scaled, repeated and replaced by Adobe Photoshop’s Content-Aware AI tool.’
IMAGE SOURCE:
‘IMG_6055.HEIC’ of a tree illuminated by a Red light.
TYPEFACES:
‘Kern Condensed Medium’ by @pizzatypefaces.
IMAGE DESCRIPTION:
A portrait image of a repeated Red tree texture, with a Scarlet Red square on the bottom left that reads “CONTENT-AWARE FILL, IMG_6055, HARRY VINCENT” in a condensed Sans-serif, on a Black background.
Boundaries. Labels. Rifts. All orchestrated to divide (and conquer). The truth laid bare. Beauty under veils. Foundations seeping through. Revealed is the very fabric of what is holding you up.
13-1-18-7-9-14 MARGIN
[DIGITAL ARTWORK, 2023]
‘Self-shot image, shoved through various image filters, cracked varnish effect, framed in faux digital print marks.’
IMAGE SOURCE:
Oakleigh Park Drive Exterior wall, Leigh-on-Sea.
TYPEFACE:
(For frame) ‘Kern’ by Pizza Typefaces.
IMAGE DESCRIPTION:
A portrait artwork depicting a cracked wall with brickwork peeling through all in Scarlet Red, with cracked and grainy textures, surrounded by Scarlet Red print/crop marks. All on a Black background.
Sacrifice is an understatement. Forgoing. Forgone. Going into one’s self. Retreat. Fear. Finding light in the dark. Burning through, you must continue.
GLYPH-REAPER-EPSILON
[MIXED MEDIA ARTWORK, 2023]
‘Bespoke painted portrait with water-based acrylic paints on A4 300GSM paper. Scanned and digitally manipulated.’
IMAGE DESCRIPTION:
A square artwork depicting a Black and Scarlet Red silhouetted humanoid figure with tears streaming down both eye holes, featuring a heptagram in their iris. All on a Black background.
“From the great abyss we come into its chasms we return gracefully.”
Bespoke esoteric iconographic symbol for new project by Theo Matthaios (Breath After Coma).
With the aim for unification, focusses on archetypal carvings, the depth of abyss symbolising the absolute chaos of human existence.
The name itself stemming from an ancient Greek phrase for "of great abyss”, “of great chasm”, chaotically deep and was usually utilised to describe the deep seas.
[CLIENT WORK, 2023]
‘Red bespoke seven-pointed sundial icon.’
IMAGE SOURCES:
(Slide 2) Pixabay: 107889, by sardenacarlo.
(Slide 4) Metal drawer unit side, Leigh-on-Sea.
(Slide 5) Cracked Glass construction window, Southend.
(Slide 6) Rusted sheet, Southend.
(Slide 7) Concrete parking complex staircase, Rochester.
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IMAGE DESCRIPTION:
A bold Red seven-pointed sundial style icon on a Black background.
Incomplete. A feeling or factually, disambiguate? Absence is often louder than presence. What is not there: is there. [4/7]
SCANNER-SELF: POSE D
[MIXED MEDIA ARTWORK, 2023]
‘Analogue captured portrait using CanoScan LiDE 200 into outlined Getty-style watermark layout.’
IMAGE DESCRIPTION:
A portrait artwork depicting a male-presenting face with glasses in a de-saturated tone. Presented in a Scarlet Red outlined frame format on a Black background.
“I wonder though. All the weight of my life resides in the material. Where will they go? Who will keep them safe? Did you know they’re imbued with my very soul?! Splintered. Divided. Sectioned-out, but not equally. I wonder: do the objects frequently tied to me hold more? Is there a measurement for that?
Will the Direct Debits stack tall for the dead? Or do they get wiped clean?
Am I an expensive dead person?
Is it cheaper to be dead?
All the things left unsaid. All the “we’ll do that tomorrow”’s echo in my absence. All the platform boots; dust-laden, like gloves from a former battle. They’ll probably age more without my use.
And what will people say? Post? Tweet? What image will they select to brandish me as their friend, family, loved one?
If only I could prescribe this and make it easier for them.
Are there dead person brand guidelines?”
WORDS 04 (POSTHUMOUS)
[DIGITAL ARTWORK, 2023]
Prose typeset onto Portable Network Graphics (PNG) checkerboard pattern.
TYPEFACE:
‘Kern’ by Pizza Typefaces.
IMAGE DESCRIPTION:
A White and Grey portrait poster with Black printed text on stating “WORDS 04 (POSTHUMOUS)
I wonder though. All the weight of my life resides in the material. Where will they go? Who will keep them safe? Did you know they’re imbued with my very soul?! Splintered. Divided. Sectioned-out, but not equally. I wonder: do the objects frequently tied to me hold more? Is there a measurement for that?
Will the Direct Debits stack tall for the dead? Or do they get wiped clean?
Am I an expensive dead person?
Is it cheaper to be dead?
All the things left unsaid. All the “we’ll do that tomorrow”’s echo in my absence. All the platform boots; dust-laden, like gloves from a former battle. They’ll probably age more without my use.
And what will people say? Post? Tweet? What image will they select to brandish me as their friend, family, loved one?
If only I could prescribe this and make it easier for them.
Are there dead person brand guidelines? - Harry Vincent 2023” in ALL CAPS with “WORDS 04 (POSTHUMOUS)” highlighted in Red. All on a Black background.
Divided and decrepit. Age grinds down the form you see. Smoothness dissolves into a dry heap of waste product. By-products dissipate the nearby. Bone is born under flesh. Underneath. Stable. Defiant in Death as the last reminder.
𝚃𝙷 𝚁 𝙾 𝚄 𝙶𝙷 𝙰𝙻𝙻 𝚃𝙷𝙴 𝚃 𝙸 𝚂𝚂 𝚄 𝙴
[MIXED MEDIA ARTWORK, 2023]
‘Scanned Black ink lumen flower print, with typography. Overlaid onto existing imagery.’
IMAGE SOURCE:
Skull painting, 2017.
TYPEFACE:
‘Hypermarket’ by Dmitry Greshnev.
IMAGE DESCRIPTION:
A square artwork of a mirrored skull in half split into Red and Black halves with grainy and paper textures, with a small piece of text in a monospaced typeface that says ‘THROUGH ALL THE TISSUE’, all on a Black background.
Appearing as a guide. Counsel to uncertainty. Cicerone. The pathway is lit. Outlined in Red. A vein to the heart. Map to land. Light to darkness. This is no vision, this is a sign.
𝕮𝕴𝕮𝕰𝕽𝕺𝕹𝕰
[DIGITAL ARTWORK, 2023]
‘Modified existing imagery with typography and esoteric “Heavenly Body” layout.’
IMAGE SOURCE:
Eye: Wellcome Collection 583170i T. Milton, 1809.
TYPEFACE:
‘DS Walbaumfraktur’ by Dieter Steffmann.
IMAGE DESCRIPTION:
A shape consisting of Red light beams protruding out of the centre with a Gold vintage illustration of an eye in the centre, circled by a blackletter typeface that reads ‘CICERONE’ on a Black background.
I’m bleeding to fit in. Once trapped, at least the pain has opened me up. No luck, though. They see what I see. The fake. The caked layer of projection. A distance, forever in parallel to. I am born on a treadmill to death. I’m like you?… You see? You see!?
GLYPH-REAPER-DELTA
[MIXED MEDIA ARTWORK, 2023]
‘Bespoke painted portrait with water-based acrylic paints on A4 300GSM paper. Scanned and digitally manipulated.’
IMAGE DESCRIPTION:
A square artwork depicting a Black and Scarlet Red silhouetted humanoid figure with tears streaming down both eye holes, featuring a heptagram in their iris. All on a Black background.
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