05-03-2011, 12:00 AM
Its not that its really impressive, but its has always been what I considered a seed of potential for my own ideas. Its an unusual but neat concept. I'm starting on a piece right now, similar to her idea.
And I'm sort of intrigued by that time period (that she draws)...the time when Poe lived. That was actually a time of a lot of metaphysical activity. Like I learned from that Ancient Aliens show that Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin were interested in alien theories, and Poe was one among many who explored metaphysical topics. When we moved to the Richmond area, I sort of got swallowed up by the feelings of the old buildings and history/energy there. Richmond as a city reminds me of a dreamscape, its so poorly planned out, the streets are not grid formation, so its easy to get lost in the city, roads suddenly dead end or turn into another name. So what we'd do is drive around looking at old houses and buildings and just go where the roads took us.There are some real old buildings there and I wish they'd preserve them rather then tear them down. It depends, and I do think they try to keep that city historical. So sometimes being there feels like traveling back in time. Of course other parts of the city are modern so it depends where you are at. It just one of those neat places to visit. One of my favorite memories is attending a midnight showing of a Poe trilogy with Vincent Price and Peter Lorre. The movie was corny as hell, as all poe reenactments are thus far, but it was fun, macabre and then walking home in the historical streets afterwards...it was in Oct., a breezy night but not cold.
Anyway, you'll see what I mean about 'time period', this artist drew silhouettes of people of the 17th-18th century.
And I'm sort of intrigued by that time period (that she draws)...the time when Poe lived. That was actually a time of a lot of metaphysical activity. Like I learned from that Ancient Aliens show that Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin were interested in alien theories, and Poe was one among many who explored metaphysical topics. When we moved to the Richmond area, I sort of got swallowed up by the feelings of the old buildings and history/energy there. Richmond as a city reminds me of a dreamscape, its so poorly planned out, the streets are not grid formation, so its easy to get lost in the city, roads suddenly dead end or turn into another name. So what we'd do is drive around looking at old houses and buildings and just go where the roads took us.There are some real old buildings there and I wish they'd preserve them rather then tear them down. It depends, and I do think they try to keep that city historical. So sometimes being there feels like traveling back in time. Of course other parts of the city are modern so it depends where you are at. It just one of those neat places to visit. One of my favorite memories is attending a midnight showing of a Poe trilogy with Vincent Price and Peter Lorre. The movie was corny as hell, as all poe reenactments are thus far, but it was fun, macabre and then walking home in the historical streets afterwards...it was in Oct., a breezy night but not cold.
Anyway, you'll see what I mean about 'time period', this artist drew silhouettes of people of the 17th-18th century.