On Tue, 30 Mar 2004 09:52:18 -0600, "Shay" <sah### [at] simcopartscom> wrote:

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>"IMBJR" <no### [at] spamhere> wrote in message
>news:c23h60pmid9gg6mgb5368lqetvnq36fak7@4ax.com...
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>A *vast* improvement.
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>The poser woman is in this case sufficiently disguised so that my mental
>poser baggage doesn't clutter your image. 

Poser baggage? I assume you are referring to the more default
settings.

>You have escaped the
>paper-doll look of your recent postings. The soft, slightly fuzzy look
>of the woman, and to a lesser extent the cupid, contribute to the
>"unobviousness" of the image's meaning.

The paper doll look is to some extent deliberate. A lot of my models
are designed with similarity in mind. I've had MIBs and running
figures riddled throughout my work. I like the clone look.

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>This imagery in this picture, unlike (the lesser IMO) 'MIB' and
>'contrasting union' are unfamiliar enough to invite study.
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>There is a lot of talk here about interpretation, exploration, and the
>search for meaning in images. I agree with the need of course, but there
>are so many images here that an artist must establish trust before
>asking the viewers here to make that effort. *This* is an image which
>inspires trust. The obvious care you have given to this image invites an
>audience to reciprocate with careful viewing. Twenty more pictures like
>this and you will have begun to establish the trust that a paper-doll
>image requires to be taken seriously or that a seemingly simple theme
>needs to invite a search for its subleties.

Please understand that I do not care if my work is taken seriously or
not. I am not here to earn trust. The work merely stands as it does -
as an expression of my mind. 

It is quite in order that you think what you do about what you see,
but please don't expect me to follow your notions of how to enter into
some highly subjective dialog.

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My First Subgenius Picture Book:
http://www.imbjr.com

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