Paper Collage_ glue stick/ scissors technology, early 2006, before I learned Photoshop.
*“Khan Jahan Lodi cancelled all appointments and went directly into his rooms, where he locked the doors behind him for eight days. During this time he refused to take any food or wine, and the only sound that the ministers who gathered outside his apartments could discern was a low, continuous moan. On the ninth day the doors opened, and to the surprise of everyone who had known the worldly ruler, Shah Jahan emerged speaking of the impermanence of life and of a desire to renounce his title and become a homeless fakir- this from the same man who, a few years earlier, had cut down four brothers to gain the throne. A strange physical transformation had also taken place: the emperor's back was now bent in a peculiar way and his hair, which had been raven black, had turned totally white.”
*If you don’t know the story of the Taj Mahal, one particularly romantic accounting can be found at exotic india art
I’ve been drawn to the Taj Mahal since the first time I saw a photograph of it as a child. It is, for me, the most beautiful building I have knowledge of. It has always stirred awe and resonance in me. Many years later, after some lived journeys into the passion of my own heart, I would discover the popular story of it. (I haven’t been to Agra…yet…it’s a journey I will undertake after Senica takes flight into her own life...Unless???)This is a collage from some magazine photos and a (water) photo I’d taken from the deck of a Gulf Islands ferry. It springs from my own yearning and search for this kind of invincible, irrepressible, mutually passionate, complete, complimentary love.While I was creating this, over the course of a couple of evenings, I envisioned it as scenes of stories of me, alone, and with my dream lover/s, weaving through many life times, in many forms, a tantric journey of maltesean proportions.
This was created before the thought of coming to BCIT and studying computer graphics, very early in my exposure to computers in general, but I am beginning to see how some of the skills I am learning now might be evolving into some animated creations in the future.
