Artist Geek - eccentric devotion to particular interests
www.genesis@no body
computer generated 8 1/2 x 11
1996 c. viktorya
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.
Java twins
Computer generated
c. 1996 Viktorya
eccentric |ik'sentrik|
- unconventional and slightly strange
- a person of unconventional and slightly strange views or behavior
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 by 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.
So moved by an image in the book, I sketched the self-portrait above.
