CHIMERA SERIES
This series was born of a desire to link the traditional techniques of printing and retouching photographs on silver-based paper to their recent evolution with the use of digital tools.
To create fusions of organic matter revealing forms that can be interpreted in different ways, the procedures are the same as they were 100 years ago: shooting, developing, cutting, mounting, superimposing, correcting tints and colourimetry, and so on. The only difference is that digital tools are used instead of paper, utensils and chemicals. Except in exceptional cases, there is no extensive digital retouching in any of these creations.
The aim of these artworks is to reveal to the viewer the effect of art on him or her, which manifests itself instinctively. To confront them with their relationship to themselves, their body, their values, their beliefs, their unconscious, their past history and their innate psychological automatisms.
The psychiatrist Hermann Rorschach used white cards with black paint in a symmetrical style to study the workings of the mind through the interpretation of abstract forms. By asking a large number of people what they saw, he was able to establish a correlation between his patients’ responses, and put forward a theory: « a psychological profile can be assessed according to the way they process visual information ».
Part 1 – Ropes
GODDESS OF ROPES
Ref : CHIM001
Thematic : Awareness
ROPEFALL
Ref : CHIM002
Thematic : Liberation
LOTUS IN ROPES
Ref : CHIM003
Thematic : Acceptance
Part 2 – Tattoo
TATTOO COCOON
Ref : CHIM004
Thematic : Introspection
TATTOO CHRYSALIS
Ref : CHIM005
Thematic : Metamorphosis
TATTOO SPHINX
Ref : CHIM006
Thematic : Renaissance
GODDESS OF ROPES
Ref : CHIM001
Model : Hope (@hope_itno)
Thematic : Awareness
This artwork presents an interlacing of arms wrapped in ropes, derived from Shibari techniques, with the use of a Karada pattern.
The ropes, glued directly to the skin, materialise the invisible weight and constraint borne by the body. This abstraction explores awareness of the grip of life’s wounds and past experiences.
ROPEFALL
Ref : CHIM002
Model : Hope (@hope_itno)
Thematic : Liberation
This artwork combines fragments of forearms and hands wrapped in ropes, derived from Shibari techniques.
The ropes, glued directly to the skin, materialize the invisible weight and constraint borne by the body. This abstraction explores the release that comes with awareness, symbolized by the loosened ropes.
LOTUS IN ROPES
Ref : CHIM003
Model : Hope (@hope_itno)
Thematic : Acceptance
This artwork shows a multitude of arms forming a Lotus wrapped in ropes, derived from Shibari techniques.
The ropes are glued directly to the skin, materialising the invisible weight and constraint borne by the body. This abstraction explores acceptance followed by personal and spiritual awakening.
TATTOO COCOON
Ref : CHIM004
Model : Muriel (@mumupapillon75 )
Thematic : Introspection
This artwork merges fragments of tattooed arms, hands and legs, representing a inward-looking.
This abstraction explores introspection, a path of self-questioning and the reconnection with oneself
TATTOO CHRYSALIS
Ref : CHIM005
Model : Muriel (@mumupapillon75 )
Thematic : Metamorphosis
This artwork merges fragments of the body with tattooed skin to reveal a form that symbolises dressing and body modification.
This abstraction explores the metamorphosis that takes place during this process of transformation.
TATTOO SPHINX
Ref : CHIM006
Model : Muriel (@mumupapillon75 )
Thematic : Renaissance
This artwork fuses together fragments of tattooed bodies to reveal a form symbolising the emergence from a cocoon.
This abstraction explores the rebirth that follows a major transformation, the final stage in the process of changing state.
