The Master by eyeland
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No AI - This artwork was created entirely by hand or with traditional digital tools.
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My first venture back into Bryce after many months. I began focusing my creative energies into photography last year (under my alter ego photosynthesis) & I kind of lost interest in Bryce for a while. Don't know if this is the start of renewed interest or a one time thing.
I recently saw the powerful film "The Master" (directed by Paul Thomas Anderson). On it's surface, it seems to be about a cult very similar to Scientology, but I saw it more in symbolic terms. There are two major characters in the film - one of them personifies the animal or physical nature of we humans & the other personifies the mind or intellect. The two seem to be in conflict with each other, but also seem to feed off each other. I think we all have both within us & that each has a tendency to try to master or dominate the other. I believe that by denying neither but by finding a balance between the two, we reach our fullest potential. I think that's what behind this image, though as always, I never know what anything I create is about until it's done...
Comments (10)
that is freaky, cool, surreal - and a great use of color!
love this...cool work
Hope this doesn't insult but . . I saw the title 'the Master', then the top of the image with its tentacle things and my first thought was 'Cthulu'! Of course once I saw the whole thing I knew it wasn't; he/it isn't supposed to be pretty - and this is!! Very good work!!
Delightful, good to have you back.
Fantastic image and colors! Corrie
Excellent work.
an outstanding bryce comeback, a very unique and strange adaption looking render from the film, excellent design and coloring!:)*5
Why photograph reality when you can make your own in Bryce? Nice job on the trippy scene.
“And I wish you'd stop whispering. Don't flatter yourself, nobody's listening. Still it makes me nervous, those things you say. You may as well Shout it from the roof Scream it from your lungs Spit it from you mouth There's a spy in the sky There's a noise on the wire There's a tap on the line And for every paranoid's desire... There's always Somone looking at you. S-s-s-s-someone looking at you... They're always looking at you.” The Boomtown Rats. Nice return to Bryce my friend! :'D
I never saw the film (The Master), and regrettably because I think Anderson is a remarkable film-maker. But your vision, of bringing those two parts of ourselves into one realm, is very visible here. There are several animal presences here and several mind presences as well. The more primal shapes---like your twisting "tree trunks" in the background---are bulbous and ooze-y things, like something that crawled out of the deep. But they have grace, and those eye-like things (on the tops of their branches), indicate a seeing intelligence. (The eyes aren't menacing, they just see.) The central creature---emerging out of the waters as our animal nature might---takes a very ceremonious form, something out of myth and ancient rite. It transforms this animal power into a complex dance of the universe. (Again, I'm falling back on Eastern imagery, which is fitting for this gallery.) Even the two big eyes on the water-level are topped by some beautiful orange structures; and that monster about halfway up the creature seems to be wearing an ancient headdress, with a good deal of ritual beauty in it. A fascinating concoction, with symmetry and balance; and the black sky makes it appear like a performance---because the sky, being stark almost flat, sends us squarely to the front where all the 'dance' is taking place. I mean, even your water-ripples have repeated shapes---nearly rectangular---which feel celebratory. "The great dance of the cosmos," as some buddhists and yogis called it. Very mythic-feeling work.