Artist Geek - eccentric devotion to particular interests
During study with Lynn Hershman Leeson at UC Davis in 1996/97, the topics we explored had to do with how the Internet was affecting personal Inter-action, Ethics in the Media (someone recently asked me if that's an oxymoron?) and then of course Gender Identity and how the identity of an individual can be masked.
Title: www.genesis@no body computer generated using a mouse with my Mac Appleworks Draw printed on paper mounted on board. 8 1/2 x 11 1996 c. viktorya
Java and me, the twins (gemini).
Computer generated with a mouse,
Mac, Appleworks Draw
c. 1996 Viktorya
eccentric |ik'sentrik| |?k?s?ntr?k| |?k?s?ntr?k| |?k-|
adjective
(of a person or their behavior) unconventional and slightly strange : my favorite aunt is very eccentric.
noun
a person of unconventional and slightly strange views or behavior : he enjoys a colorful reputation as an engaging eccentric.
from Greek ekkentros, from ek ‘out of’ + kentron ‘center.’
Picasso, Only Picasso
Pencil and Charcoal on Paper 18 x 24
c.2004 Viktorya
An amazing book Goodbye Picasso is in black and white with many images by Picasso I had never seen. I was moved by an image in the book and sketched a self-portrait. Author David Douglas Duncan states, "One morning late in the spring of 1961, while photographing Picasso's private collection of his own work . . . I came upon a gaunt self-portrait of the artist. It was just stark charcoal on canvas, almost skeletal, nearly life-size, dated 22 March, 1938, and totally unknown . . . Like nearly all of Picasso's hidden canvases, it was veiled under decades of dust that had to be cleaned away before I could use my color cameras. I swept it with a feather duster--and my heart nearly burst! The charcoal had never been fixed. His face was now little more than a faint tracing seen through smeared charcoal and dust . . . this still secret self-portrait was ruined." Goodbye Picasso, p. 2.
