Flora Borsi

IREEL is a series of painted images don't by the artist Flora Borsi.  The hyper realistic painter aims at trying to achieve a result that looks like a real photographic image. She applies some colour and toning affects to the photographs and adjusted the contrast and shin retouching.



"A pictorialist photographer's desired result is visually equivalent to a painting."

Nickolay Lamm

Nickolay Lamm is a 26 year old artist who's mothers kitchen table is his studio. I came across his work while I was researching work for my dissertation and realised it was an influence in to recent studio work of mine - My Barbie image series.  I enjoy his work and efforts in trying to achieve his goal of getting the ideal body image of females available to them true a representation of an average teenage girl. It is a positive body image for young females to be introduced to.
What i find more interesting behind the project then the work itself is the reviews and feedback he has on the product. Many women and men around the world have ordered and received the barbie doll for themselves, their daughters and even their sons. His doll has made so many people more happy then the average barbie doll ever had.

This is a statement of his work i found on his website: "He scored a big hit last summer with his “regular Barbie” doll which — gasp! — actually possessed the body proportions of the average 19-year-old female. That was a digital mirage, but Mr. Lamm has spent much of the past year developing a real doll for sale called Lammily — complete with reusable stickers that mimic freckles, acne, cellulite, grass stains, moles and stretchmarks — and she’s been selling like hotcakes."

This is the software barbie doll he has produced too sell to families. Not only is the doll of average proportion but her clothing is also of ideal standard rather then the skimpy, non-appropriate style the barbie doll is sold with.


This is is the comparisons of the barbie doll that Lamm produced before he started creating his own doll. He uses the Mattel Barbie doll to show how out of proportion the doll is to the one he made.

Scanned self images

Taking images of yourself is a hard thing to do, especially when working on something like the topic of body image. These images iv uploaded before, but these have a twist to them. I painted over printed images, to try and create something new. I painted over the body figure, as if to hid them from people seeing them, like we do with make up, Photoshop, and Internet on a daily basis. I then scanned these images back onto my laptop and cropped them down. I thought there was something personal going on in the images, for me there is, but when i showed them to others, i got responses that they felt like they were spying on someone, like they shouldn't be looking at them. 

 These two images, are more abstract then the rest. This was purposely done because I was trying to achieve an image that looked like there was a figure within the page.

Exhibition

Here are a few shots of my prep work, the making and the hanging and the night of the exhibition.

This is my work statement

My final hanging piece 

Primitus

This is our exhibition poster for Third Year Photography and Lens Based Media class, LSAD. Its taking place next week, opening night 17th February.  Please come alone and support up and coming Limerick based artists.

Thank you 

Barbie

Dolls are an influence on every girls lives, whether it is a barbie doll, or a cast off of this doll.  Mirrors are a massive influence in all our every day lives, whether it is in the morning, doing our hair or passing reflective glass on the street. The following images are influenced by both these. The black and white images are purposely black and white, so colour does not influence what we see. When printing the images, i printed them to 11.5 inches, the standard size of a barbie doll. 

Cory Arcangel

For my internet project, I was looking at the work of Cory Arcangel.

He’s series called Lakes is several images in a looped video file. These pix-elated images show many well know figures, like Hilary Clinton, and Jay-Z, with intensive eye contact to the viewer, which have a delicate waved digital effect below them, to give a liquid reflection. Although this is not directly the effect I was going for, I found the images to be beautiful and inspiring as they have this special look, though the technique of them being digitally flawed. I really find many more of Arcangles works very interesting. I love his thought patterns and his daredevil approach to his work and who he uses in it. Its very controversial but this makes it so interesting.