Created by: Charles, Phineas, Davezilla, and Jima
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I kinda like this one. Everyone has a blue background in their sections, which helps for continuity between pieces, I guess.
I'm struck by the great difference between the corpses we're making here, and the original Exquisite Corpses that were made ~80 years ago, as seen on the Explanation page. Obviously, because we're all working in a digital medium, there's a lot more photocollage work going on, so there's a lot more content in the pieces we're creating. I'm not sure if this is a good or bad thing, but it does mean that it's a lot harder to match up your piece to someone else's. Tanguy and Man Ray just had to continue a few pencil lines to the next corpse section, but we have textures, color gradients, and text to match and continue.
I don't know where I'm going with this. I guess I'm just pointing out that this style of corpse creation is way more different than doing it on paper, so the fact that we're getting some good results so far is heartening.
By jima : email : : web : @ 08:18 AM CST :: 27.September.01
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Well, I guess creating something unique to digital methods was kind of the idea. Otherwise we would be mailing folded pieces of paper around. I do think that the execution of the pieces is a lot more complex than I had anticipated. Which has made seeing people's solutions for the problem that much more interesting. Also, I think it will be interesting to see people trying new approaches other than photocollage. Like jima's sketchy pencil drawing. Oh, and I just now noticed the black bird wearing the mitre. Very nice.
By Phineas : email : : web : @ 09:15 AM CST :: 27.September.01
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Phineas, I want that fish-headed, winged Rock God as an action figure! Soon as you can...
By D : web : @ 11:17 AM CST :: 27.September.01
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Each corpse seems to be getting a little more complicated and a little better integrated. Although my personal favorite is still #7, this one seems to have a flow all its own. I can't quite verbalize the connection I see, but it's definitely there.
Something about a nightlight and a night life, I think. Or maybe how it seems to be going from a complicated, full-of-stuff piece on top to a 'simple' and ampty piece on the bottom.
Or maybe I'm just losing my mind.
Ah, losing my mind it is.
You can skip the rest of this if you don't want to be bored to death.
To me, using digital means to create the corpse's seems both easier and harder to do. Easier to do because it takes very little time to make a selection or design a piece that will work with what you are supposed to match. However, it is made more difficult because, as jima said, the added difficulty of matching textures, gradients and other elements makes it hard to match your piece WELL.
I understand that one can do whatever one wants with their part of the corpse, but truth be told we all want our corpse to have some sort of flow, or connection, between the seperate pieces.
I believe that as this experiment continues the pieces will get more complicated, and hence more beautiful, as each artist begins to experiment with different ideas, concepts and styles that might help them feel that they have 'connected' with the piece in a 'better' or 'more pleasing' way. I also think that photocollage's will be replaced by individual styles at some point. Most likely after the artists involved begin to feel comfortable with this "new" concept of collaborative art.
By GeekMan : email : : web : @ 11:27 AM CST :: 27.September.01
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it is clearly Davezilla's ascension into surrealist heaven. note the winged messenger of the lord, in a stance not unlike that of Charon in the Last Judgement, ferrying the souls of the dead across the river Styx, he awaits the pious Davezilla, and points the way toward heaven. there are clear demarcations of earth sky and heaven. and in each section everything seems to point upward. even a sort of beanstalk in the top most section, denoting the end of the climb or journey. i also wouldn't be surprised to learn that the glyphs read "Davezilla, pharoah, destroyer of memes."
it is another fantastic corpse!
i think the evolution of the corpses, as well as the comments, are helping to shape what is taking place here.
i do find myself wanting to ask a couple of questions just to maybe clarify things a little more.
as i understand it, the idea is to get the pieces to flow, but is that the goal, or are you content let each panel (and corpse for that matter) be what it is, flow or no flow?
next, is there a place in this experiment for segregation. and by asking this, by no means do i wish to cast aspersions on anyone's work. i think it's all been fantastic, bar none. but i was wondering, based on comments here, if people wanted to see this split off into 'hand drawn' corpses and 'photocollage' corpses? or possibly three categories, where one is hand drawn, another being photocollage, and a third where anything goes? does this thought go against the idea of the experiment or in the spirit of it?
the original was paper and pen/pencil. this is digital art. a purer form might be to duplicate the 'hand drawn' idea. but digital art is broad in scope. do you want to define it, or as i first asked, are you content to let the pieces be whatever they turn out to be?
By michael : web : @ 16:02 PM CST :: 27.September.01
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it is my belief that the corpse pieces are to blend downwards from the top to bottom, as do the somewhat simplistic hand-drawn pieces that inspired this project.
The manner in which the undertakers of each corpse collaborate on this blending is entirely up to them - I rather enjoy the flow (seamless, or otherwise)from collage to hand-drawing and back again - I think that the disconnects that happen are joyful in and of themselves, and make the thematic connnections more acutely wonderful.
The lack of control over anything but your own piece is the reason this endeavor is interesting to me - as an artist, I seldom am so directly called to give and take - this project gives me color, shape, size, texture, and an impetous to begin (and finish) a piece, and, ultimately, multiple responses to the resulting collaboration. to further dictate the corpses would be a crime, I think.
good show on the current corpse, btw.
By Heather : email : @ 17:59 PM CST :: 27.September.01
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I have to say, I like this one. I think people are starting to get into the flow. The first couple I worked on, I just snipped off the bottom and thought it was up to the next person to work with it. But here you'll notice I did make a conscious effort in putting the purple and green "columns" at the bottom, so there was a deliniated piece for the next person to work with. And I think it worked, in the best collaborative way. Not to pat myself on the back too much, but Phineas' section really has a nice flow off of mine, and his columns were a great touchstone for Davezillas aligators, and daves, um . . . dress goes right into Jima's drawing (I'm just a little scared now - but it is surrealism.) I wouldn't want to see the goal become to match up sections perfectly - I think taking a cue and going with it (and leaving a cue for the next person) is the way to go!
By Charles : web : @ 18:38 PM CST :: 27.September.01
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Maybe I've put too much emphasis on the idea of 'flow'. I don't want people to feel limited in what they do because they think they'll be disruptive of the piece as a whole. It's a fine line to walk and I admit that the execution of these things is more challenging than I had initially believed it would be. Which is great. I think this project has tons of potential and we have yet to see work from a large portion of our membership. With more people working in different combinations things will only get more interesting. Which is to say, I am not comfortable with the idea of imposing further restrictions in terms of photocollage vs. drawing or whatever. It's still early.
By Phineas : email : : web : @ 22:21 PM CST :: 27.September.01
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