Composited Reality Project
These images were created in 2016 in collaboration with Robin Storey (New Castle, UK). We both took a series of photos and swapped them. After that we composited the images in Photoshop. Then we traded the composites and used them as references to our paintings. Below are Robert and Robin's renderings.
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Robert L. Pepper's Versions
Robert L. Pepper Statement:
"All of my life I have been interested in ancient civilizations and esotericism. I believe that the art and beliefs of ancient cultures were influenced by something coming from within themselves. This influence is illustrated through the art and architecture of these cultures.
In this project with Robin Storey, I tried to intrinsically illustrate, through the meditative art of painting, the connections of the two parallels of imagery through the compostited photographs."
"All of my life I have been interested in ancient civilizations and esotericism. I believe that the art and beliefs of ancient cultures were influenced by something coming from within themselves. This influence is illustrated through the art and architecture of these cultures.
In this project with Robin Storey, I tried to intrinsically illustrate, through the meditative art of painting, the connections of the two parallels of imagery through the compostited photographs."
Robin Storey Statement:
"As a visual artist I have long had a great interest in ancient symbols glyphs and runes as I grew up in an area of the UK where these were prevalent and readily visible in pre-historical monuments and ancient architecture.
This joint project with Robert Pepper was conducted with an initial exchange of a number of photographs of where we lived. These photographs were then manipulated and combined in a series of collaged images. These collages formed the basis of the paintings which ensued.
The images are reduced to imaginary symbols and glyphs and organized in an imaginary pictographic manner. Each painting is both individual and part of a wider narrative.
They invite the viewer to their own interpretation."
http://www.rapoon.org/
"As a visual artist I have long had a great interest in ancient symbols glyphs and runes as I grew up in an area of the UK where these were prevalent and readily visible in pre-historical monuments and ancient architecture.
This joint project with Robert Pepper was conducted with an initial exchange of a number of photographs of where we lived. These photographs were then manipulated and combined in a series of collaged images. These collages formed the basis of the paintings which ensued.
The images are reduced to imaginary symbols and glyphs and organized in an imaginary pictographic manner. Each painting is both individual and part of a wider narrative.
They invite the viewer to their own interpretation."
http://www.rapoon.org/
