The question is: "which photo is of a piece of art that was featured and for sale at the festival", not which pic do I think is art, that's a shame. I think the answer might be: D, F and H. The photo I like best is E.

I think the concrete abstract pics might be yours, art sales usually want pics with people in them.

And you're welcome (but I don't know about your dog yet).

Art for sale? Might be H. The photo I like best is G.

And as Gerard tripled his chances by naming three candidates, I vote that if one of his picks is right, that he get a visit by 1/3 of you, Kali.

I rather not be visited by 1/3 of Kali, poor man, dragging his sorry ass over here and leaving the rest home.

I misread the post, so I go for 1/1 of Kali: F.

Ha ha, yes indeed, 1/3 of me in Amsterdam is perhaps all the Dutch culture shock this mind and body could take, but what 1/3?

Thanks for partaking in the art game Dhyana, I'll wait for a few more guesses this weekend, if not, I'll let you all know by Monday.

Now I know what 1/3 of me gets to come to Amsterdam, and a sorry one it is indeed!!! Thanks for the guesses Gerard, I'll be letting you all know very soon.

Like the new Avatar Gerard ... is it a fragment of a Herring?

E perhaps

I'm opting for C as it is similar to a piece I saw in the Glasgow Gallery of Modern Art. It was a constructed piece, which gave the impression of actually being a section of the kerb.

Thank you,

only three choices:

A: my own work
B: fragment of Haring
C: Other: ...

Ah Ha, good one ... hmmmm ... Ok, how about your own work based on fragments of Haring with the help of someone other ... can't say that or I'll end up with a visit by only 1/3 of you and we already know what sorry part that would be?

I will go with B, fragment of Haring. (though I'd love to see any art work that you do create)

I like B the best and that's my guess. I might have chose it because I am a sucker for Apple.

Me too, been buying them since the Mac 124k in 1986. The question would then have to be, is the guy with the balloons in front of the Apple store a sculpture of a human or the real thing? Hmmmm, will let you know in a couple of days, thanks for taking a guess Panda Paws.

I think I would of liked that piece of constructed art very much ... hmmm, could of the same artist made his way to Virginia to exhibit and sell their work, maybe?

Perhaps a close up or fragment of a large abstract piece? Thanks for taking part eP.

Very good! Haring it is.

I just noticed that the guy with the balloons in B is wearing a very wrinkled jacket!

Wow! That's more realistic looking than the Prabhupada murtis in the temple. Pretty amazing.

I thought you'd never ask. You can see my photos here. (Click on the image to get into a certain gallery and then click on the image to get a larger image.)

I've just taken a quick look around your site Gerard and I am totally blown away with awe, for you've been keeping this a secret all these years, well at least from my awareness—that you are a practicing artist with images and experimentations with form and light. I can relate in a thousand ways to what you are trying to capture and express in your photos and creations. Do you create the twisted and flowing metal that reflect all that light and subtle colors, or are these found objects that you take into a photo studio set up and shoot away? Same with the figures and more abstract cityscapes, are these all created by you and then shot in a photo studio?

I am totally amazed and surprised, very pleasantly by all means and possibilities! I have a lot of questions about some of the specific pieces, so I will have to go back and look more closely at them and then get back to you in PM's or here on this thread. Some of those figurative pieces would of worked great (and maybe did) when we were all role playing and creating fictional pieces on the subject of the Andre and Paganini stories last year.

What a surprise, one never knows what talents secretly lurk behind the members we think we have gotten to know over the 5 years of this forum. I guess I never asked, but sure wished I did earlier concerning your own art, I just never ever remember you writing or even hinting somewhere that you created art? Thanks so much for sharing the link, and I will be getting back to you so understand the methods, visions and reasons that spur you in your artistic pursuits. Thank You, Thank You, Thank You!

Well, Kali, your enthousiastic reaction has blown me away! I don't know what to say, except thanks a million. I like reactions like yours.

About 10 pics were put in various GR threads but I forget to mention when it's mine or found on the net, maybe that was confusing. To get into the making, some of the landscape pics were taken with very, very crappy plastic toy-cameras. Not built on a set. And the abstract metal ones are made here at home out of sheet metal with color paper reflecting in them.
The light pics were made with special 12V phosphor light strips and strings developed in the Israeli army. I used to know the importer of that stuff, that was very lucky. On some I applied gel and that was photographed close-up (not with a crappy camera but with Leica R4 with 100mm on a bellow) to get the liquid light effect.
The sand pictures were made out of sand on a lightbox on differently colored plastic sheets. And the scale-models (some people call them dolls) I just set up on a table, there is really not much to say about them, I just potter away with the stuff. And I only use Photoshop to do the old dark room things like dodging and burning, cropping and adjusting the contrast and color-saturation.

I love the explanations for your creations, the materials used, especially the Israeli phosphor light strips. They are almost an exploration of imagery that would represent the micro and the macro, not to mention the human life in between. There is definitely a lot of narrative qualities in your doll or figurative series, like stills from a film, emotional life moments put on hold. The explorations of light you take on is really fascinating and seems to be one the main qualities apparent in all your series, color and light interacting with form. Really good images Gerard, something worth having a show with if not already done. Still digesting the images with my eyes, mind and heart, and the one thing it is doing for me is that it is acting like an encouragement to keep creating my own art, so thanks for that aspect of finally linking your art website here on GR.

Really dig the imagery there, for what little I just got started with. I will have to digest this in increments. Don't know why, but today I was drawn to the scale-model residence art (some call it a doll-house ) — seriously, where do you get the setup for these!

Thanks, I'm glad you like them, don't get indigestion! The set-ups I get from collecting a lot of stuff from flea-markets and found objects and friends give me a lot. And then I had to give up my living room, I only have a 2-room flat.

This is a picture of my ex-livingroom. On the left is the light box I made the sand pictures on and I'm using that now for old slides from magic lanterns. In the middle the "studio" with work in progress (no backdrop or set-pieces yet), and stuff all over the place.

Expansive art images can emanate from small environments, as you and many other artists have proven over the years. This could be a whole new thread on GR, to show your creative space online, the place where people either work at home or create in their extra time away from work. It’s the true spirit of the artist that will sacrifice living space for creation or studio space.

I love how with simple everyday materials and regular hardware type lighting you were able to make the stage where your doll or figurine photos are shot. The books in the shelves spark an interest to want to walk over and see the titles, same with the photos on the wall and the figures on top or on the bookcase. Mr. Penguin on the floor is not hard to notice eventually. (Something Paganini would of appreciated) Your light table on the chair is nice touch, much more space efficient than a large light table taking up a big part of the room (I have both, and once committed to a large table model, you are stuck for life with a space taker)

I have always enjoyed seeing photos of artist’s studios and workspaces. It is amazing to eventually learn how so many created in a living room or bedroom and not large studios attached to the house or in an old warehouse.

Where one creates informs what is created in some ways, so it was really nice to see the studio space in your living quarters Gerard. The Jim Reeves song "Welcome to my world" was a nice soundtrack to listen to while looking over the photo also, nice touch.

My studio space is very small too, an extra bedroom in a small townhouse, though parts of what I do is actually spread all over the place. That strange world where old easels and drafting tables fight for space with computers, scanners and printers, not to mention found objects, boxes of reference and books everywhere, then the wall space full of images, some mine, though most from others or things of interest. Now to get the courage to make a photo of the place and show it …. hhmmm…I think I’ll have to wait for a clean up period first.

I didn't clean up, as you might have guessed before I took the picture, but I need no courage; I'm not married. I hope you'll get around making some pictures.

I can show the top of the bookcase, not my books (that would take too many photos, my "library" is also in the other room and in the storage space). This is a typical Amsterdam interior; cluttered.
The blue Delftware plates are late 17th c. from my grandparents and the monkey sitting on the book "Philosophy" on the right was made by my other grandfather who was a statue-restorer for the Rijksmuseum. The Blue Boy in the middle is paper mache from South India, with some apsaras "made in China".




(Of course these pics could have been put the thread "places where we live" or in the thread "places where we work".)