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OMG I love you guys!
Shae at December 12, 2005 7:30 AM
This was my first opportunity to start off a corpse. If they're going to turn out this good, I want to start 'em all off from now on!
Shortest title ever?
Daniel at December 12, 2005 10:11 AM
Exceptional title, beautiful corpse...and welcome, Cicada.
Miroje at December 12, 2005 10:39 AM
I'm trying to figure out how the mask from the 3rd panel got into the 4th...
GSTAR at December 12, 2005 11:12 AM
Sweet.
I've so been looking forward to having my first corpse posted. This worked better than I ever hoped to imagine it would. I actually caught a buzz off of this. Corpsing is better than huffing.
How did the mask from panel three wind up in panel four? Call it what you will. All I had was the end of the tube. I roughly had my composition in mind before I got my assignment and had planned on a figure with a gasmask (I suppose a very natural "distopian" icon). I thought the grey behind the golden tube was a wall, so I was picturing a factory of some kind. I thought the curve and texture of the gasmask tube in my panel nicely paralelled the pipe, I just had no idea how closely. That's the most obvious repetition but there are others. There's a lot going on in this corpse.
Cicada at December 12, 2005 11:27 AM
Indeed! Another flawless corpse. We are on a serious roll here.
FogBaron at December 12, 2005 12:14 PM
Great minds think alike, Cicada.
Shae at December 12, 2005 1:19 PM
nice, i especially love the bottom two panels.
the lighting on panel 3 is great and is continued equisitely by the 4th.
Sein und Zeit at December 12, 2005 6:15 PM
almost flawless
cicada that's a way kewl tile! 1st one rocks
keep em coming!
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i can't breath!
"Unfold me, I am small and needy
Warm me up and breathe me"
Sia
gympy at December 12, 2005 10:39 PM
I can't help interpreting Cicada's slice as anything other than a wedding on some far-off, mysterious planet, where the toxic nature of the atmosphere has resulted in some curious (albeit pleasant enough) mutations.
The whole corpse is truly excellent.
FogBaron at December 13, 2005 10:22 AM
I really like your interpretation FogBaron. Surrealism and alchemy walk hand in hand. A wedding wasn't my conscious concept but the title does suggest interaction and coming together. When I made the piece I was thinking about medieval and early Renaissance altarpieces.
I love the diagonal created by the dominant elements of the first three panels. The figures in the bottom repeat them making the full corpse read as a kind of mathematic equation. Allegorizing celestial bodies was part of my intention. The blue and white abstract form in the second panel repeats in position, shape and color scheme in the queen-character at the bottom. Note the chalice shape created by the variation of tone. A golden ring binds the form, which in the bottom panel are repeated as arches centered on the queen. Small and hard to read in the rabbit's right hand is another ring, a serpent biting its own tail. Raw energy is generated in the upper level, crystallized as a pipe that runs through the composition, perhaps generating the fire on the scythe. The gas-mask repetition creates the impression of a temple, drawing cosmic energy and channeling it into an avatar.
I've now officially overextended by pretentious, BS quota for the day. I bid you good day.
Cicada at December 13, 2005 11:45 AM
Uh, yeah...that, too. Of course.
FogBaron at December 13, 2005 11:50 AM
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