Inside Out by ArtPearl
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Description
I have been thinking lately about the boundaries between the inside and the outside. This included aspects like indoors and outdoors, home versus workplace but mainly inside and outside of myself. Is it possible to let feelings out? would uncovering them allow external light to filter in, or would it make the outside invade, the skies to cave in?
Being in this frame of mind, I was trying to write down how to carry out a cloth room simulation in separate stages and was setting up a very simple example. The exercise drifted and evolved into the current image.
The name is inspired by a phrase from Peter Gabriel's song "Mercy Street":
"Wear your inside out, dreaming of mercy"
And by a quote from the end of the movie "Everything is illuminated":
"Everything is illuminated in the light of the past. It is always along the side of us, on the inside, looking out."
Technical info:
The cloth is a high res plane (Thanks again Rutra), the other objects are poser primitives.
The textures are mainly procedural.
The image on the cylinder is my watercolor self portrait "What next"
(See my homepage for clearer version)
The simulation was carried out in two stages, first draping the cloth on the cylinder and then "lifting" the front using a choreographed group.
(If there is interest I could make the very mini-tutorial available).
Any comments, technical, artistic, philosophycal - all welcome.
Thanks
Comments (7)
Sivana
I don´t want to say something "critical" as I really enjoy to see this image and the wonderful idea behind this image!!
Rutra
Very good idea, very well executed. Very interesting detail, that pin that didn't resist the stress from the strings. It shows very well the conflict of forces between showing and hiding the inside. Two pins resisted, one collapsed but even so the inside was displayed. Interesting... The simple aspect of the outside of the cloth contrasts with the more complex pattern of the inside, and that is a very good analogy with "real life". Very well done as well that the walls suggest outdoors and the ground suggests indoors. With very few elements, you touched a lot of ideas and successfully depicted a complex theme.
bogart137
Transcendental metaphor of life wisely translated to the language of arts. There are few visual resources, nevertheless, one can recreate with the infinite range of interpretations that the image suggests. Perhaps, by my bonds with the theater, I can also imagine that there is a character, hidden behind curtains, who is afraid to leave to scene or to face a public, that is, to face the world. And that´s just one of the thousands meanings that can be found in this singular image.
AnAardvark
Once again, an extraordinary work of art. The work with the cloth is incredible. From a technical point of view, I think that the pin on the right should probably bring the fabric down lower. From a purely esthetic point of view, I think that the portrait could stand to be slighly lighter, or perhaps the floor a little less purple. (The purple in the floor matches the purple tones in the portrait a little too well.) I think that the artificiality of the space and the realism of the cloth really helps bring this image to life. Bravo!
Conniekat8
Looks like an inside wanting to peek... or perhaps push out
JOELGLAINE
I love Peter Gabriel! Mercy street is a good song to apply to this piece, I think. The colors on the inside around the self-portrait, and the spikes pointing inward speak volumes! The colors of spirituality (purple) contrast with the earthyness of orange showing the conflict between what we feel and what we think? I am jealous of your masterful cloth-room skills! Very good! ^__^ V,,
Soulpainter
Though very simple in nature this image says so very much. It is like a complete book waiting to be read. Amazing work and yes, I would be interested in a tutorial on the cloth. I am trying to figure out how to do material and well, not doing so well lol. Thank you for sharing this amazing piece. Lovely work!