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The dolls return.......
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Winter's Child
Quite possibly the visual manifestation of my keen anticipation for the colder months. And more besides. As the summer winds down, I generally tend to become more settled, introspective, imaginative and content. I began this whilst playing with the idea of Snow White, which may or may not still be evident in the completed work. It also has a slight connection to the concept behind 'Mirror with a Memory', one of my earlier creations, which you can view here. As you will see, I have been perfectly in the mood for a little bit of darkness and whimsy combined.
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Lake House (version 2)
Every now and again, I like to plunder through the Art&Ghosts vaults. This is always fun to do, especially if I am in the mood for a spot of reinvention. Whether building upon an original idea (as above) or else tidying up what I consider to be quite 'damning technical imperfections', there is something that I find so infinitely fascinating about revisiting these earlier 'scenes'.......as if time itself has a magical effect upon them, revealing new potentialities and hitherto unforeseen depths.
Here, I chose to move the clock forward a few hours. The original version made use of a sombre, peaceful sunset, settling across the lake; whilst the updated image plunges headlong into the lunar, hovering somewhere (albeit just as contentedly) between the dead of night and dawn.
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