“Man Made”
"Man Made" was created in October 2008 with "Painter"
(Metacreations) for the first "House of Mirrors: The first
exhibition
of artworks inspired by the same subject".
Print: Piezo-Print on Somerset Velvet Size: Paper: 50x35 cm, Picture: 41x27 cm Copies: 10, numbered and signed, and 2 artist's copies (I-II) Price: 400.‒ Euros Artist: Björn Dämpfling
How this image was done in technical terms I can only describe in a
very abstract way, something like “freestyle with filters and colors
with multiple layers”, because when it was done, I simply had
forgotten what I did do. I just knew that the intensity of this
portrait could not be enhanced, but I did not want to lose exactly
that quality in order to be free from that given portraiture. So
transposition into a colored image was an option, but only while
preserving its first impression, transposing, not breaking it: The
same head, showing the same heavy hearted intensity, but in parallel
universe with colors. For this result much more creativity was
needed, than just to add colors, as can be seen quite easily,