Ashkan Honarvar / Website
Great collage and photo manipulation artist. The Face-5 series is probably my favorite, which has faces being torn into chunks of candy. Ashkan (what an awesome name) seemed very open about his work and answered an email from me when I asked him about his project “Finding Hitler,” which the piece above is taken from.
Finding Hitler creeped me to the core. What was your motive behind the series and the title?
Hi,
John Lennon inspired the title of this project. He once said in an interview that every person got a Jesus and a Hitler in them. Jesus for the good and Hitler for the evil.
In my personal work I try to understand where this evil comes from. The human body reflects this evil often, like in wars and genocides. The physical reflection on the human body caused by hatred has always fascinated me like in the series Faces.
Finding Hitler was another attempt to understand this evil. Like a surgeon I cut up bodies to do a anatomical search to find the roots of evil.
Thanks
Ashkan Honarvar
Wednesday, March 10th 2010
Islands Disappear by Said The Whale is pretty fun music with some great lyrics. I found this band through Nikko Ronsayro; though I was skeptical at first, the music hooked me and I find myself continuing to listen to the songs (even as I write this review/post!).
http://saidthewhale.bandcamp.com/
Should you listen to it? Probably.
-Matt Hocker
Friday, January 29th 2010
ww by nemo-et-nihil is, plain and simple, interesting to stare at. I bring this feeling with me for most of this artist’s work; each piece seemingly dark and surreal. I can’t tell you exactly what the exact message is with this artwork, or any of her artwork. I definitely can’t tell you if there really is one to begin with.
But I can tell you it is all designed in a unique way with interesting shading techniques; the artist -and her work- really stands out to me.
Check out some of her other work: http://nemo-et-nihil.deviantart.com/
Maybe you’ll learn something; maybe not.
-Matt Hocker
Friday, January 29th 2010
Splitting, by IrukaTheSlayer - really makes you think. The artist’s comments read “Separation of soul and body,” and that can definitely be seen in the picture. What really drew me in were the questions I found myself asking following this:
“How?”
“Why?”
I’m sure there’s all kinds of potential answers that exist (and plenty more questions you can think of). The painting really breaks through the clichés one might find when seeking out the connections (or in this case, disbandment) between soul and body. It’s an intimidating piece and the tone, colors, and figures just help to prove that.
Check out the work on its respected page, and be sure to check out some of her other art as well:
http://irukatheslayer.deviantart.com/ - it’s really not to be missed.
And if you miss it you might have to rework your schedule.
- Matt Hocker
Sunday, January 24th 2010
Bone Joker, by LyndsayHarper, is what I consider a masterpiece. I’ve always been a huge fan of LyndsayHarper’s use of color and just the overall aesthetics of the works presented. Mostly surreal, a majority of the images seem to tap into the artist’s subconscious.
Many a time I feel as if I can relate to the piece and, if I cannot, I try to draw whatever inspiration I can muster from it. This is definitely an artist not to be missed!
http://lyndsayharper.deviantart.com/
If you don’t check this artist’s work I will cry.
-Matt Hocker
Friday, January 22nd 2010
