Real life... association with Thief - by clearing
Hamadriyad on 20/12/2012 at 23:35
Wow! I've never thought pagans! Now it looks more interesting! I thought about some alien movies when I saw the thing in the middle, but it is absolutely paganish.
And yes, that banner really resembles the pattern in the gears. I guess the artist was a taffer! :D
jtr7 on 20/12/2012 at 23:50
It'd be funny if it was. I'd like to know who the artist is, and see if combining whimsical organic lines with mechanical and symetrical ones is a common theme for him/her.
With the pagan connection in my mind, I now see the enclosure at the bottom center reminds me of the chamber Viktoria used to show Garrett how the rust gas worked.
Inline Image:
http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20080606235639/thief/images/e/ee/T2_B16_01.jpgIt's neat how similar ideas converge and form from disparate points, unless, of course, the artist really is a taffer! It's a human concern of the effect of industry on nature, pollution on life, order on chaos. Yeah, I'd like to know what this artist was thinking.
Hamadriyad on 21/12/2012 at 00:17
Whoa! Indeed! It really looks like that.
I don't know If I will be able to find who the artist is, but I will try to.
Really , it is interesting, I couldn't agree more.
Also I wonder what the artist was thinking. I looked at the photos again, and I noticed that those gears looks like human cells. And then I began to think about Deus Ex! :D Never the less, the art is futuristic. Cyberpunk-steampunk hybrid! :D
Maybe the artist is really a taffer and that is what s/he was thinking:
"In the future, at some point Mechanists will return, but this time they won't against the Pagans and nature, on the contrary, they will try to protect the nature with their inventions. And to point that, they will make that art together. Mechanic and organic is together! Balance is restored."
Heh, an utopian future for such a corrupted City! :D (unless the Mechanists actually think something else, something totally dangerous! )
jtr7 on 21/12/2012 at 01:08
Other than the craft and materials and engineering involved, Matthew Ritchie's definitely going for fractal-like organic lines:
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http://www.google.com/search?q=Matthew%20Ritchie&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hl=en&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&biw=1280&bih=839&sei=trXTUOm1L8GriAKu_oDwDw)
Pretty intense overall. Looking at his Wiki page:
Quote:
Ritchie draws from numerous meta-narratives that explore
religion, philosophy, and science in order to create his complicated, yet freshly simple works. “Influenced by everything from the mythic escapades of comic-book superheroes and pagan gods to the meta-narratives of philosophy, religion, and science, Ritchie has developed a mythical narrative or cosmology of his own, and his art is communicated via a variety of art spaces and installations, including galleries throughout the world and the World Wide Web.” In an interview with Art: 21, Ritchie states that he reads Nature Magazine, which is a weekly journal that publishes technical articles about contemporary scientific findings.
Ritchie's pieces have a scientific nature to them, but do not solely represent scientific agenda. Instead, his work investigates the role of science within society, creating a narrative between order and chaos.Hamadriyad on 21/12/2012 at 17:11
Wow, man's work is awesome, definitely worth to see. And order and chaos indeed! Nice catch! ;)
nickie on 21/12/2012 at 21:02
As ever, I love this thread. So many places I'd like to see for real.
