Midwinter Abstracts
All images created by Damian Whittle
Passing Through
Passing Through This is a digital piece created using PowerPoint and photos taken with a Samsung compact camera. This image explores ideas of colour, movement and thought. As well as my… Read more Passing Through →
A Meeting of Moments II
A Meeting of Moments II A digital piece exploring movement, stasis, colour and shape. Damian
Free Movements in Space
Three digital art pieces created using PowerPoint and photos taken with a Samsung compact camera. Together they explore the dynamic possibilities of movement, the organic texture of trees and the elegant mysteriousness of triangles. Free Movement 1… Read more Free Movements in Space →
Again
Again A digital piece created using a Samsung compact camera and PowerPoint
Experiments in Land Art and Art Land
I’ve recently begun reading a book about the artist Richard Long which I found in Leeds Library. Alongside some gloriously moody and stark photographs there are some short – and… Read more Experiments in Land Art and Art Land →
Organic Geometry
The Plumed Serpent: Art and Tattoo
Ever since I was aware that they once existed, I’ve felt drawn to the imagery of the lost Aztec and Mayan civilisations. The angular lines of their buildings, the incorporation of the animalistic, the feeling of both the civilized and the savage meeting in one. It reflects so much of their cultures, especially the Aztecs with their beautiful cities and need to please their gods through human sacrifice. In the 1920’s, the West would come to the Aztecs for inspiration both in art and design, influencing the Art Deco movement in the same way that Egyptian imagery did. Although the Mesoamerican civilizations were all but… Read more The Plumed Serpent: Art and Tattoo →
Strange and Lost Visions 