Portraits II
I don't know exactly how I
created this creature, but I'll tell you one thing: it's
definitely alive. Not just because it has two eyes, a nose, a
mouth, and antennae—but because of the way the eyes, nose,
mouth, and antennae grew before my eyes out of nothingness. I was
just sitting at my computer morphing random colors, and suddenly
there was a gooey little alien dripping down my computer screen.
Staring at me with the exact same expression with which I was
staring at it. I get the feeling it's not too happy about having
its portrait painted.
Okay, so we
all know what a great musician my Internet Service Provider,
David Bowie, is . . . but what far fewer people know is that he
also paints. And not just any paintings either. He
paints very special paintings. Specifically, he paints excruciatingly
awful paintings. And because I find his paintings so
visually offensive, I sometimes take it upon myself to fix them.
This picture of mine is based on David's portrait of his wife,
Iman, and it takes real talent for anyone to destroy her beauty,
but he did. I, however, have successfully restored it. Check out David's version which is hideous, or
click on the picture for a larger version of mine.
This
picture on the left is one of several I've done that were
inspired by the story of Ramona A. Stone on David Bowie's 1995
album 1. Outside. It's Ramona as the Queen of Spades. I
started out with a real Queen of Spades from a playing card—smiling,
long-haired, conservatively clothed and smelling a flower—and
then I got out my 1. Outside album to look at one of the
official pictures of Ramona (which is really a computer-morphed
photograph of David Bowie dressed up as Ramona). I looked at that
picture and simply adjusted the Queen to look like the bitterly
proud green-skinned wicked warrior woman Ramona is. All I need
now is a full set of cards with all the other characters included
too.
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