tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73033382435446341942024-03-12T18:23:48.097-07:00Nat Draz PhotographyNat Drazhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06273097921327690380noreply@blogger.comBlogger34125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7303338243544634194.post-26802427106698376852009-01-10T08:54:00.000-08:002009-01-10T09:07:36.970-08:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAGjMeaw3lRGTgHPWPmjCTUiHXezGyaOW9gzjlUoU743fy9wtrunj4hFiLilmpExwK1U67m-hYx-yhSrRRMWL5XBuduNyUlSOKANkt7clxPU_B9OVNAk3qYlX4WO1X2WXzh1-p2fcfocQ/s1600-h/20+Photography+-+Empty+City.png"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 265px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAGjMeaw3lRGTgHPWPmjCTUiHXezGyaOW9gzjlUoU743fy9wtrunj4hFiLilmpExwK1U67m-hYx-yhSrRRMWL5XBuduNyUlSOKANkt7clxPU_B9OVNAk3qYlX4WO1X2WXzh1-p2fcfocQ/s400/20+Photography+-+Empty+City.png" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5289711752605507506" /></a><br /><br />'Empty City'<br /><br />While I was interested in the 'urban dowry' of this city, from cars to streetlights, have the sole position of subjects, this photograph has always evoked very creative and different reactions from other people. <br />My favourite is the idea from another photographer that this was the perfect tourist 'backdrop' and that people with Hawaiian shirts, Tilley hats, a camera around their neck and a map could walk right into it for a photograph at any point. There are no other people to date the photograph with fashion styles, and the streetcar is iconically Toronto. While this actually was no part of my intent, I love that interpretation of such a commercial use for an empty city photo.Nat Drazhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06273097921327690380noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7303338243544634194.post-43122632460151015832009-01-10T08:49:00.000-08:002009-01-10T08:54:26.957-08:00Bookmaking: J'aime ParisIn 2005, I had the opportunity to visit Paris for two much too short weeks, and created this book out of all the paper ephemera I collected in the metro, the subways and the streets alongside photographs. I added vellum silkscreens to give a reader some visual rest between the many, many pages.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjY_yYcYTgaE303TZzbhwwp56lIGmtTjv6SQ0171mE7-Oozqqf9XUujSadG7PKYkbT2VPhf5Y_9ueq2wBXnPhIaCQC2n9cwQeuiwiBRInthOolI8pRUiLo7KAkXKx1dt5qOOY5CrWSFi0g/s1600-h/19+Book+%26+Box.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 277px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjY_yYcYTgaE303TZzbhwwp56lIGmtTjv6SQ0171mE7-Oozqqf9XUujSadG7PKYkbT2VPhf5Y_9ueq2wBXnPhIaCQC2n9cwQeuiwiBRInthOolI8pRUiLo7KAkXKx1dt5qOOY5CrWSFi0g/s400/19+Book+%26+Box.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5289708192096807522" /></a>Nat Drazhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06273097921327690380noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7303338243544634194.post-75798226875147478252009-01-10T08:46:00.001-08:002009-01-10T08:49:00.780-08:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiR6CscdMGrtV8RX4F4zG1LaaLeU0LX7nBmIUuEVYFgZBurHsxx9QsZKBhEkNbK_stHYExzsMLvz008kr5SazFWlO3MA8GJzbnSVpCrQPcSbbzT2QU-hfAaHPjfXUzmB-yvmic5lpT2olY/s1600-h/18+Books+-+Handmade+Paper.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 305px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiR6CscdMGrtV8RX4F4zG1LaaLeU0LX7nBmIUuEVYFgZBurHsxx9QsZKBhEkNbK_stHYExzsMLvz008kr5SazFWlO3MA8GJzbnSVpCrQPcSbbzT2QU-hfAaHPjfXUzmB-yvmic5lpT2olY/s400/18+Books+-+Handmade+Paper.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5289707431043153922" /></a><br /><br />The OCAD Papermaking Anthologies are a collaboration with fellow printmaker Sheila Jonah. We collect fibres from marsh grass to found paper, and continue from there! Papermaking and bookmaking is a culture of collaboration. Artists share facilities, pulp ideas and credit. OCAD's anthologies offer opportunities to meet staff and students who share interest and ideas, as well as get a wonderful opportunity to have examples of other people's work .Nat Drazhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06273097921327690380noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7303338243544634194.post-29331495250988431422009-01-10T08:42:00.000-08:002009-01-10T08:45:59.868-08:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6k18rwFA6JVveGhXCUAEz1NxLqcNyUeM4XGg7JgHq-X7ZWWIElNr-q8_Yaqaio1TK43C55HaZf93nr5bJ8VxX0H_CoH-WLmZDIyo667tKzYACtNLFfhBrRMBhgpeWfrklsq8ZG6kt1v8/s1600-h/17+Print+-+Red+Dress+(Alt).jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 307px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6k18rwFA6JVveGhXCUAEz1NxLqcNyUeM4XGg7JgHq-X7ZWWIElNr-q8_Yaqaio1TK43C55HaZf93nr5bJ8VxX0H_CoH-WLmZDIyo667tKzYACtNLFfhBrRMBhgpeWfrklsq8ZG6kt1v8/s400/17+Print+-+Red+Dress+(Alt).jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5289706617155896834" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRHCJpQBLmk5i_hLXzsVyBMzOO_TEXLz8U1-CM0xloiIn5yRAbGMfgGqvsAavyI6A8btvBNRxi0RK0im2Mwwp8dqYR_SSjN1hqkUEyuH078o98ram4a8LXmSTmdwMuM0dxqRqac82NYnY/s1600-h/16+Print+-+Red+Dress.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 310px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRHCJpQBLmk5i_hLXzsVyBMzOO_TEXLz8U1-CM0xloiIn5yRAbGMfgGqvsAavyI6A8btvBNRxi0RK0im2Mwwp8dqYR_SSjN1hqkUEyuH078o98ram4a8LXmSTmdwMuM0dxqRqac82NYnY/s400/16+Print+-+Red+Dress.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5289706607649432610" /></a><br /><br />As an artist, part of my challenge is to not blind myself to chance opportunities. Chance within the process of printing meant my original print of a woman in a red dress was able to transform inadvertently to a person of conflicting faces, one with the ability to see but not speak while the other could speak but was blind, a spontaneous work rich in mythological symbolism of hegemonic blindness and silencing.Nat Drazhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06273097921327690380noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7303338243544634194.post-55882350026416440872009-01-10T08:37:00.000-08:002009-01-10T08:41:36.217-08:00Glass LampworkingI've been renting torch-time at TANK Fire + Metal Studio, and now have all kinds of beads!<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfjIXSArMJ1JdsUjNj3FyR6UrmjphpEpCBE3fscOYf86tN8hRbX9ExNloU8YJdseHgkZKErI0Af2hKlOP2J-ufBFHIElqiZ21jSVYtoMXKXkNzVT4_c-fVDtPJrCew765ZfJARZSeBLKM/s1600-h/10+Glass.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfjIXSArMJ1JdsUjNj3FyR6UrmjphpEpCBE3fscOYf86tN8hRbX9ExNloU8YJdseHgkZKErI0Af2hKlOP2J-ufBFHIElqiZ21jSVYtoMXKXkNzVT4_c-fVDtPJrCew765ZfJARZSeBLKM/s400/10+Glass.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5289705598295737874" /></a><br /><br />Lampworking is very addictive. See if you can spot at least 3 ray-guns, a Thanksgiving ham or a wolf-head in the photo!Nat Drazhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06273097921327690380noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7303338243544634194.post-12426713575195404622008-12-02T07:57:00.001-08:002008-12-04T21:35:07.967-08:00University College Art LoungeCome and visit the University of Toronto's newest Art Lounge at University College!<br />From December 4-7 2008 come interact and crawl through my installation of men's business ties woven into a tunnel.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEissg76jMeoYybk62wQWx5GCr9ykR5TkYpjtjgrz4UwwsiAw97ukLpF7OprBaZCP37Dp9Buw2JAae5x7Z5lecO1-FgpH8vopF9p4WvA10e-gIXiRkruyvnnHTjY5-p6aKdC27Dk589ro0I/s1600-h/n28122885_46002703_6921.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEissg76jMeoYybk62wQWx5GCr9ykR5TkYpjtjgrz4UwwsiAw97ukLpF7OprBaZCP37Dp9Buw2JAae5x7Z5lecO1-FgpH8vopF9p4WvA10e-gIXiRkruyvnnHTjY5-p6aKdC27Dk589ro0I/s400/n28122885_46002703_6921.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5276174214216123698" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEj3YqLtCaiw4Ra7CfTKinkMagYglUd_wBpl2Rj0Li04UNWG5m_STlY9hVxF2fEei91M032zT4ZHn_aOrnm1m4J-tMkReHnvaTmOmu6Dhd3HH5grEne5lYNB9V4srAeX3EohV-O_j-_9M/s1600-h/n28122885_46002704_7221.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEj3YqLtCaiw4Ra7CfTKinkMagYglUd_wBpl2Rj0Li04UNWG5m_STlY9hVxF2fEei91M032zT4ZHn_aOrnm1m4J-tMkReHnvaTmOmu6Dhd3HH5grEne5lYNB9V4srAeX3EohV-O_j-_9M/s400/n28122885_46002704_7221.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5276175299755122354" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5U1hyphenhyphen8CXzMKaSXqvwsM4pjags42Nz9vG31ad8l8-XaeukFy8yChO5U9H8zJjVZzcwGrd1koi1mPZpqxWdYsZdd-v0Rl-g6GRfQY3_xwfG7zLJJjjBUghJUKo-g8SToiaeKP8r2CWn0Y8/s1600-h/n28122885_46002705_7525.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5U1hyphenhyphen8CXzMKaSXqvwsM4pjags42Nz9vG31ad8l8-XaeukFy8yChO5U9H8zJjVZzcwGrd1koi1mPZpqxWdYsZdd-v0Rl-g6GRfQY3_xwfG7zLJJjjBUghJUKo-g8SToiaeKP8r2CWn0Y8/s400/n28122885_46002705_7525.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5276174217499375298" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmbicGiq7QlFmISOErFfGc61Q5i6DbWkYCI2qiQRJwebw9vnvAbZQlvCLGATVuOzg3NRoVSlZuglIXoc6rJXQ_ea99eCtlPAVuC5je48QdgkGPdpJhgFflZClajPm2eteWvIF6wrg_Xdk/s1600-h/n28122885_46002706_7819.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmbicGiq7QlFmISOErFfGc61Q5i6DbWkYCI2qiQRJwebw9vnvAbZQlvCLGATVuOzg3NRoVSlZuglIXoc6rJXQ_ea99eCtlPAVuC5je48QdgkGPdpJhgFflZClajPm2eteWvIF6wrg_Xdk/s400/n28122885_46002706_7819.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5276174222392093026" /></a><br /><br />Read more about the Art Lounge and Art Center at http://utac.utoronto.ca/<br /><br />Located in University College, a splendid Romanesque revival building, UTAC is at the heart of the University of Toronto’s St. George Campus. Established in 1996 it is one of the five public art galleries to be discovered across the university’s three campuses. Exhibitions that embrace a range of media, art forms and time periods offer an engaging gallery experience that is complemented by lectures, gallery talks and symposia featuring internationally renowned artists, writers and academics.<br /><br />Part of the Critical Curatorial Lab.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjptAXuragYvC_GXoBxUc7KBqaFyQm3YgZkKGtYxx-7-d6_6sSjFnysG9fRvIaPpu8p2lqrHEuSLZREZgILacMnoQAgrNeyuWGA_xK5OyhPfHNOq24mRhZA9p9ikikqLUOIOj35otc8arE/s1600-h/presenting.png"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 131px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjptAXuragYvC_GXoBxUc7KBqaFyQm3YgZkKGtYxx-7-d6_6sSjFnysG9fRvIaPpu8p2lqrHEuSLZREZgILacMnoQAgrNeyuWGA_xK5OyhPfHNOq24mRhZA9p9ikikqLUOIOj35otc8arE/s400/presenting.png" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5275223945936499570" /></a><br /><br />Admission is FREE to all Art Centre exhibitions. <br /><br />Tuesday to Friday 12 to 5 pm<br />Saturday 12 to 4 pm<br />Sunday and Monday closed<br /><br />UTAC is wheelchair accessible.<br /><br />15 King's College Circle<br />(Main floor of Laidlaw Wing)<br />University College<br />University of Toronto<br />Toronto, Ontario<br />M5S 3H7<br />Tel: (416) 978-1838<br />Fax: (416) 971-2059Nat Drazhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06273097921327690380noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7303338243544634194.post-50202538067205141052008-12-02T07:53:00.000-08:002008-12-04T21:38:04.188-08:00University of Toronto's Eyeball ShowOpening Night: Thursday, December 4, 2008 from 6-10 PM<br /><br />Eyeball is the annual undergraduate art exhibition at University of Toronto. All students in Visual Studies program will be exhibiting their work. Come out and celebrate art!<br /><br />I will have up my installation work from the heart transplant vault to my melting masks - a chance to see them in their original locations.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlIj3wZf-olSySVWYl4rBkOUUDWD8FkyTPZ7rXHLF9PU6dVZfB1wAeN2faxHhg_5jS4w6asCvK6rDCFJANN7ImW1DTllL9sdcBDI2SA-4WPpNFlSgy4HP3Q4P83ckOXNQmoafqmjC0hbk/s1600-h/n28122885_46002721_2449.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlIj3wZf-olSySVWYl4rBkOUUDWD8FkyTPZ7rXHLF9PU6dVZfB1wAeN2faxHhg_5jS4w6asCvK6rDCFJANN7ImW1DTllL9sdcBDI2SA-4WPpNFlSgy4HP3Q4P83ckOXNQmoafqmjC0hbk/s400/n28122885_46002721_2449.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5276176052721241474" /></a><br /><br />FREE ADMISSION. LIVE MUSIC. CASH BAR. GREAT FOOD.<br /><br /><br />* DIRECTIONS TO 1 SPADINA CRESCENT:<br />Located North of College in the centre island of Spadina Crescent and South of Harbord Street. Main intersections are Spadina Avenue and College Street.<br /><br />Traveling by TTC, exit at Spadina Station, take the Spadina streetcar southbound and get off at College Street. Or take the College Street streetcar and get off at Spadina Ave.<br /><br />* MAP:<br />http://sws.rosi.utoronto.ca/sws/map/main.do?locations.dispatch=1&external=1&l=SP<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhP9Y-rten7HGBivCM9S5Ig8Ldv7paVntmDP_maoj1YXhKXgxa0aHMltIjlfgDhJvpBwomcfjDqaIH81ClcY_rYPYNIxWNh4yT5nVyfRamaQaHiXDKOgc5t8PQFeqdh1hGGmt90o5cdhp4/s1600-h/n28109774_45972527_5432.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 261px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhP9Y-rten7HGBivCM9S5Ig8Ldv7paVntmDP_maoj1YXhKXgxa0aHMltIjlfgDhJvpBwomcfjDqaIH81ClcY_rYPYNIxWNh4yT5nVyfRamaQaHiXDKOgc5t8PQFeqdh1hGGmt90o5cdhp4/s400/n28109774_45972527_5432.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5275222370546305138" /></a>Nat Drazhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06273097921327690380noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7303338243544634194.post-18474170938289028832008-12-02T07:49:00.000-08:002008-12-02T07:53:39.097-08:00Upcoming Shows - Open Studio Proof SaleOpen Studio's Annual Artist Proof Sale & Open House<br /><br />Opening Night: Thursday, December 4 from 6pm to 9pm<br />Sale continues to Saturday, December 20<br /><br />Kick off the holiday season with Open Studio's 24th Annual Artist Proof Sale and Open House, Thursday, December 4 from 6-9 p.m. Come and select original, one-of-a-kind artists' proof prints*—screenprints, etchings, lithographs and relief prints—at prices ranging from $50-$300!<br /><br />On the opening night of the sale, the print preview is from 6 to 6:30 p.m. and the sale begins at 6:30 p.m. The sale continues to Saturday, December 20.<br /><br />Enjoy the food and festivities of opening night, including printmaking demonstrations by special guest artists—take advantage of the opportunity to acquire one of the works they create that evening! Check back on our website for updates on participating special guest artists. Also available will be a new set of hand-printed greeting cards perfect for any time of the year.<br /><br />* Artist proof prints are works that record various stages of the development of an image, or represents the final state before the edition is printed. Monoprints are one-of-a-kind prints of which no edition or multiple is printed.<br /><br />My proof is a monoprint from proofing prior to the editioning of my 'Queen' series.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpJ8cpC6p1GzEYYkt0B84SPuDoM6eAeZb98Lt9r36BqiKizsfhKDAuwdUEePsg7ycLFOcWwyXCkYhgwQt-4dpA5VJhh2xwEXAOCSJ2I-qlewuBugheR_xZHkPeUqRy175kp873MLr0Lz0/s1600-h/QUeen.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 261px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpJ8cpC6p1GzEYYkt0B84SPuDoM6eAeZb98Lt9r36BqiKizsfhKDAuwdUEePsg7ycLFOcWwyXCkYhgwQt-4dpA5VJhh2xwEXAOCSJ2I-qlewuBugheR_xZHkPeUqRy175kp873MLr0Lz0/s400/QUeen.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5275221370852304450" /></a><br /><br />See further details at http://www.openstudio.on.ca/apevent.htmlNat Drazhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06273097921327690380noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7303338243544634194.post-13790269071518900082008-11-28T15:55:00.000-08:002008-11-28T16:13:19.045-08:00Gendered MasksHumans are born 'tabula rasa', or as blank slates. It is the gender roles constructed and passed down culturally that create and constrain the social roles of people into easily-understood categories - social masks that are adopted and expected. However, the masks are not static. They can change, and thus these masks are blank slates themselves which have been constructed but exist in a static of deconstruction, melting during their use.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-9oC7s8_DNBqM8k6RqFP8kW4oQEviRS2JcNtnHubwsMi0si1NI-DLkQMTipC0Yl1nXu-eeXhfHlRywORfVOS4KZoykxkO0H4wfMrGTTxU32um_8WF2i6arwFY-vIO8hBVjvAUexat-RA/s1600-h/VIS204+Gendered+Masks+27.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-9oC7s8_DNBqM8k6RqFP8kW4oQEviRS2JcNtnHubwsMi0si1NI-DLkQMTipC0Yl1nXu-eeXhfHlRywORfVOS4KZoykxkO0H4wfMrGTTxU32um_8WF2i6arwFY-vIO8hBVjvAUexat-RA/s400/VIS204+Gendered+Masks+27.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5273863248341444274" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNy-Z8kCLbVAq1l8rQvLPbzHRVgNu-7yZGkEnG0dsV6CtaqHhSno_Jqf5FJyGy0cwok2BPZib5KJzPnNsnFdEkYNINYHhONYLp4wBBzcy4ZLWTEj4f1eArfDmoX5aSr7Dyz6oqxnpKpFw/s1600-h/VIS204+Gendered+Masks+21.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNy-Z8kCLbVAq1l8rQvLPbzHRVgNu-7yZGkEnG0dsV6CtaqHhSno_Jqf5FJyGy0cwok2BPZib5KJzPnNsnFdEkYNINYHhONYLp4wBBzcy4ZLWTEj4f1eArfDmoX5aSr7Dyz6oqxnpKpFw/s400/VIS204+Gendered+Masks+21.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5273863243645416754" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuHhM_FeFIYXgo8mPQlmXFTCOBMeo2UCNlV3zNwA_pvN_QGSi014t_CbJx5qb9FqPwwvaLy6_P8ZRwg54pUYEglkAHpRm-Rj0-7PHgWKZMnpxqalYzUO8BQoUSH7QolZhmAX0qAXvfKsU/s1600-h/VIS204+Gendered+Masks+15.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuHhM_FeFIYXgo8mPQlmXFTCOBMeo2UCNlV3zNwA_pvN_QGSi014t_CbJx5qb9FqPwwvaLy6_P8ZRwg54pUYEglkAHpRm-Rj0-7PHgWKZMnpxqalYzUO8BQoUSH7QolZhmAX0qAXvfKsU/s400/VIS204+Gendered+Masks+15.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5273863239559684962" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiyRYKRPwezGTBAzx3UgSDV7KyKbbNXLswjAm8CyfG809uM6m1hAe0ajvRURyNRSQcTlylz1QO08Nra-TjafFzzmxNSngkkd9wEyzvTlGuueDRMna5tOr79R0zhKJsIVtFl4yLxFLI9UY/s1600-h/VIS204+Gendered+Masks+3.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 268px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiyRYKRPwezGTBAzx3UgSDV7KyKbbNXLswjAm8CyfG809uM6m1hAe0ajvRURyNRSQcTlylz1QO08Nra-TjafFzzmxNSngkkd9wEyzvTlGuueDRMna5tOr79R0zhKJsIVtFl4yLxFLI9UY/s400/VIS204+Gendered+Masks+3.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5273863236559218226" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSId2H0bfmh5iBv2V_6rl9CUp-_5xapCU3pzv8um5hJb9xT5GggyQ1iyEN9uwgMClDzBnPvTaYiDjvO3hlmRhc8T1R4_xVz0b1rD8ZJ4zqkmqLkUF2-e2ctbog7uXSNPBkhOz__SGziEI/s1600-h/Gender+Masks+7.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSId2H0bfmh5iBv2V_6rl9CUp-_5xapCU3pzv8um5hJb9xT5GggyQ1iyEN9uwgMClDzBnPvTaYiDjvO3hlmRhc8T1R4_xVz0b1rD8ZJ4zqkmqLkUF2-e2ctbog7uXSNPBkhOz__SGziEI/s400/Gender+Masks+7.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5273863232964814722" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhC3bVoxPHd-k00k2osXlnYFoS9ZQ_7xMcGtKqdvVQbKj0gwtvkYMd0s0WptXtnr3_mR0L6BPtGXuNe1n9FFfLANUakheaw5IdiYkKiiSEQ9m0342L4tyZ3gF98BpjIdFxgFjMTqJ-FAlg/s1600-h/VIS204+Gendered+Masks+42.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 318px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhC3bVoxPHd-k00k2osXlnYFoS9ZQ_7xMcGtKqdvVQbKj0gwtvkYMd0s0WptXtnr3_mR0L6BPtGXuNe1n9FFfLANUakheaw5IdiYkKiiSEQ9m0342L4tyZ3gF98BpjIdFxgFjMTqJ-FAlg/s400/VIS204+Gendered+Masks+42.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5273863543596850850" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEEi7sU_a66Z2tIdCnBtf0hT_ZOOGnfPALCZ1_mq0R5egYPDlk3BDiLFA-4cV_JzI2dfIWro6Udrz7zv7TGNfZGZrfWK3yE8GQlRtxRy8bBVhyGGyY_TXL8JQ0Jz7fKbAz5tGywENDSlo/s1600-h/VIS204+Gendered+Masks+46.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEEi7sU_a66Z2tIdCnBtf0hT_ZOOGnfPALCZ1_mq0R5egYPDlk3BDiLFA-4cV_JzI2dfIWro6Udrz7zv7TGNfZGZrfWK3yE8GQlRtxRy8bBVhyGGyY_TXL8JQ0Jz7fKbAz5tGywENDSlo/s400/VIS204+Gendered+Masks+46.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5273863539991497298" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1KKg2cXeZvvvn9jfIbGHcNPM1D834wanE0w0kwaCSj7QnsvgVqP5bgUkr3d0qh-bPtS_vunAuPBrUT7rlDJThpjd3NQREpvCMzGb2uV1Cn55cjErG70AI5_EywAqwYuRGmBmAQbSX-lM/s1600-h/VIS204+Gendered+Masks+38.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1KKg2cXeZvvvn9jfIbGHcNPM1D834wanE0w0kwaCSj7QnsvgVqP5bgUkr3d0qh-bPtS_vunAuPBrUT7rlDJThpjd3NQREpvCMzGb2uV1Cn55cjErG70AI5_EywAqwYuRGmBmAQbSX-lM/s400/VIS204+Gendered+Masks+38.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5273863530800539138" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTdWmOShzr4-fgmuNfxbHdOsTNUg4ELiDjNm70NvZcnWHG-2PovsjwziCMT0rP5-AH7Z7lxat6fv3Ly5Un55Ir_dG-4QmnXQ8AU6RzysZBsKuQr-_JjPE_Ap8_tpNL-caGS0xMmN80Em8/s1600-h/VIS204+Gendered+Masks+33.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTdWmOShzr4-fgmuNfxbHdOsTNUg4ELiDjNm70NvZcnWHG-2PovsjwziCMT0rP5-AH7Z7lxat6fv3Ly5Un55Ir_dG-4QmnXQ8AU6RzysZBsKuQr-_JjPE_Ap8_tpNL-caGS0xMmN80Em8/s400/VIS204+Gendered+Masks+33.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5273863525404894242" /></a><br />Beeswax is constantly mutating, with no static end. It can be repeatedly solidified and liquefied through time, much like the constant reproduction and changes in cultural practices and beliefs. <br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiSk-GgMznDuKi9GHAu-2G_-bHy2Umff62yUh0fFI-xQyHXybToFXhF5PxRjVztYPKL3_RFnrDmblPsHosZ72VhxvGa3WLXBmbPazabiIJCUSIqxt2D8YiJNQ_9LPl_NO_md9FsFrnrm8/s1600-h/Gender+Masks+43.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiSk-GgMznDuKi9GHAu-2G_-bHy2Umff62yUh0fFI-xQyHXybToFXhF5PxRjVztYPKL3_RFnrDmblPsHosZ72VhxvGa3WLXBmbPazabiIJCUSIqxt2D8YiJNQ_9LPl_NO_md9FsFrnrm8/s400/Gender+Masks+43.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5273863960482936498" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxpoMn0g9tSPedD7inCmJ5BZVu1DCSxG7t78OkpeB6XDGsLoIo4gI0VB1aVINd2kOU2Q9WBRhL4zfdO56I4tTDBYhEbNDx-5zvvA3GsYTzC2oAWH3AB7_5wBxtmIjUUzYi-6PL7qLn-fs/s1600-h/Gender+Masks+72.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 304px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxpoMn0g9tSPedD7inCmJ5BZVu1DCSxG7t78OkpeB6XDGsLoIo4gI0VB1aVINd2kOU2Q9WBRhL4zfdO56I4tTDBYhEbNDx-5zvvA3GsYTzC2oAWH3AB7_5wBxtmIjUUzYi-6PL7qLn-fs/s400/Gender+Masks+72.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5273864629543135586" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKoO1BHzIEL8Dq2huSctn-MLKufvbUlcXXIxDLYoJwp4yH_UQk_t3l4zMoAD6Efj54A_fl0aksM4uOnTTMizSwq_QvI8mEPPIc0EtYxm0bKSOsCi2G59xhjtgS24CqjTd7Bs5ZpXrHxnY/s1600-h/Gender+Masks+30.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKoO1BHzIEL8Dq2huSctn-MLKufvbUlcXXIxDLYoJwp4yH_UQk_t3l4zMoAD6Efj54A_fl0aksM4uOnTTMizSwq_QvI8mEPPIc0EtYxm0bKSOsCi2G59xhjtgS24CqjTd7Bs5ZpXrHxnY/s400/Gender+Masks+30.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5273863957704891218" /></a><br />Beeswax is used to create cohesion by filling in gaps and creating a seamless surface of disparate elements. The myriad of words and colours on the beeswax masks are given cohesion by the beeswax that holds everything together, much like how gender coding creates an apparently cohesive dichotomy between male and female, and between proper behaviour and attributes versus incorrect gender roles for each.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg65DAuqGCw2skAQjBCRgSooq6HM4x-LHtsTIJ1IxcgM7SaFmWfD-L0gLB8s8rScI44W2ZYSIM3758nkliE-XVgfQhStgD5HJ5SX5hd7Za6FwJglb9C4goGXOLwoqaYZAPJk2XDXvZJrqE/s1600-h/Gender+Masks+57.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 337px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg65DAuqGCw2skAQjBCRgSooq6HM4x-LHtsTIJ1IxcgM7SaFmWfD-L0gLB8s8rScI44W2ZYSIM3758nkliE-XVgfQhStgD5HJ5SX5hd7Za6FwJglb9C4goGXOLwoqaYZAPJk2XDXvZJrqE/s400/Gender+Masks+57.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5273863962926400338" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaXmjAd_VIyJCGWW6LCB0VQD7YR_KqGkmdlnsZvPVziIoFfqiY_3NWlJ1E1d4rw3P3JU5pJ071RpZnnQa4uD1Ud97fv3ooMNXVcMuHN9ECfwDu5pLI8hzFwLjypnmv29Oe5-dW98pEbnA/s1600-h/Gender+Masks+18.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 303px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaXmjAd_VIyJCGWW6LCB0VQD7YR_KqGkmdlnsZvPVziIoFfqiY_3NWlJ1E1d4rw3P3JU5pJ071RpZnnQa4uD1Ud97fv3ooMNXVcMuHN9ECfwDu5pLI8hzFwLjypnmv29Oe5-dW98pEbnA/s400/Gender+Masks+18.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5273863952606952050" /></a><br />However, beeswax is also a dynamic material, with a potential for change. Just as society changes over time, beeswax holding together societal gender roles also changes. Humans themselves are warm enough to slowly melt beeswax, and thus any mask worn is bound to undergo change, whether it is simply worn by a human or subjected to more intense illumination.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiG0HOaEyKjKvuBqy8wQ6ECu2QMrr7SJMj3cu08Psee-JhopZrYj1fJvenr-9hZefW7UrIT09-4nnmDbDW7EftNgZh-0_rPfGAKkaJJzsqqP0S0URM45yiJkMoo9dDGE4TdVt4IqFn2Y4Y/s1600-h/Gender+Masks+39.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 286px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiG0HOaEyKjKvuBqy8wQ6ECu2QMrr7SJMj3cu08Psee-JhopZrYj1fJvenr-9hZefW7UrIT09-4nnmDbDW7EftNgZh-0_rPfGAKkaJJzsqqP0S0URM45yiJkMoo9dDGE4TdVt4IqFn2Y4Y/s400/Gender+Masks+39.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5273863960530134578" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDB25LkK5L3r8n4Vw-bzuZ7MiYvLpWr4tKxOsbCvwBPQawM31CgAaehvRl7aJpjxZEdkriNyUvNbTVScwRvHbYbCdZuXbArpYOKW82cYKpzOza_jp6exYsYi4Jac4zxG0MWRJguqMQ698/s1600-h/Gender+Masks+65.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 267px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDB25LkK5L3r8n4Vw-bzuZ7MiYvLpWr4tKxOsbCvwBPQawM31CgAaehvRl7aJpjxZEdkriNyUvNbTVScwRvHbYbCdZuXbArpYOKW82cYKpzOza_jp6exYsYi4Jac4zxG0MWRJguqMQ698/s400/Gender+Masks+65.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5273864621667202402" /></a><br />Masks are signifiers of human absence. They are meant to be worn on the face, and signify an absent face, such as the beeswax death masks of the famous and infamous. <br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0-4Nr31ptqwMY_XHPRhdXJv5Vg3sKwbfMIq7txTCGR0ZOjLI2tV_DeK-2Kq8orI8fp_-rhavsNI31o-Nh8uXfjOW_dNYfxihifeVfJqb6ilkfwmLOeYfRTspETVNjAqBMTIbDwEukJ9w/s1600-h/Gender+Masks+100.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 267px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0-4Nr31ptqwMY_XHPRhdXJv5Vg3sKwbfMIq7txTCGR0ZOjLI2tV_DeK-2Kq8orI8fp_-rhavsNI31o-Nh8uXfjOW_dNYfxihifeVfJqb6ilkfwmLOeYfRTspETVNjAqBMTIbDwEukJ9w/s400/Gender+Masks+100.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5273865029915822690" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEgk3IrXn1JojpIAzznNp7qfQPmO4BLz4vBMi383ZDNll5ef4horX7FQA_nJ31WBuPxKZMEqv80RDIWZXLMSF8t5sIZMYdhxQi9vtej1WNRQkUlrtxHCVHKv3UalU8D8zeqmJN0YB_TMo/s1600-h/Gender+Masks+106.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 281px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEgk3IrXn1JojpIAzznNp7qfQPmO4BLz4vBMi383ZDNll5ef4horX7FQA_nJ31WBuPxKZMEqv80RDIWZXLMSF8t5sIZMYdhxQi9vtej1WNRQkUlrtxHCVHKv3UalU8D8zeqmJN0YB_TMo/s400/Gender+Masks+106.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5273865036527560514" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiukriGY0caHO5Y7WNijGd1r8LwcprK1pcZGuYgQglAHJC5DO47wXE8wlKTYuzgNkTSHK_778Bi60g05SgOp4HFeaEvE23l1IAOC8l7tL4eSSOLsKAqGeKpUDXS1YPWcEfT7bsnx2sTO0s/s1600-h/Melted+Gender+Masks+1.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 268px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiukriGY0caHO5Y7WNijGd1r8LwcprK1pcZGuYgQglAHJC5DO47wXE8wlKTYuzgNkTSHK_778Bi60g05SgOp4HFeaEvE23l1IAOC8l7tL4eSSOLsKAqGeKpUDXS1YPWcEfT7bsnx2sTO0s/s400/Melted+Gender+Masks+1.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5273865034343816066" /></a><br />Masks are the different ‘faces’ we wear in life, and are inherent objects of performance and stereotypes. By inheriting and constructing masks, people’s roles are cohesive, and easily understood by other in the community. Masks also create cohesion through dominance and oppression, rejecting anomalous traits that do no fit into categorization. While masks can change and challenge past stereotypes, they still obscure and simplify people into understandable societal roles, denying the existence of an individual behind the mask. Masks constrain people physically and mentally. Society also constrains people into a narrowed, more coherent culture.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihMwDvTxBoeZ4h-UhKl8cUVUz1gcKprlRG3gTb7hBLiPxCFi4SEW7WrO3MAO-r4AWXtshEifPWA74afj16RSaY-c57Hsn7f8Ccv0IkzlaQ59W7oa5EW6dCUs09ZMEggqfI2PEgR3ajA-A/s1600-h/Melted+Gender+Masks+8.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 268px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihMwDvTxBoeZ4h-UhKl8cUVUz1gcKprlRG3gTb7hBLiPxCFi4SEW7WrO3MAO-r4AWXtshEifPWA74afj16RSaY-c57Hsn7f8Ccv0IkzlaQ59W7oa5EW6dCUs09ZMEggqfI2PEgR3ajA-A/s400/Melted+Gender+Masks+8.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5273865495403436850" /></a><br />The masks are stained with coloured beeswax and typed words that are imbued with gendered meaning. Blue is for boys; pink is for girls. Words themselves, from descriptions and actions to professions and emotional states are stained with gender, and with the correctness of the word for the male or female gender. The four masks represent the four categories: ‘correct’ male and ‘correct’ female words alongside the ‘deviant’ words used to denigrate the wrong traits in men and women. The strict categorization of word association is revealed in the long histories of connotation most words carry, seen in the etymology of words.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKWfOrd9vFg__w2LdIslE9YXyjEfMdKFDI4Te9MyWmfauWQk3AUGiq1Auhf5U_uOark7zJ4U2Gp_a7SiSeZuY5le3avt7MewDCr45th2RMRnOPSmjvglJjYKas-Y4frDxnoPZRcoTvygY/s1600-h/Melted+Gender+Masks+6.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 268px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKWfOrd9vFg__w2LdIslE9YXyjEfMdKFDI4Te9MyWmfauWQk3AUGiq1Auhf5U_uOark7zJ4U2Gp_a7SiSeZuY5le3avt7MewDCr45th2RMRnOPSmjvglJjYKas-Y4frDxnoPZRcoTvygY/s400/Melted+Gender+Masks+6.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5273865489838193474" /></a><br />Education and knowledge is metaphorically understood as the “illumination” of an individual along with society, and it is through illumination that strict categories of gender roles and appropriate gendered behaviours have begun to break down, paralleling the melting down of the strict gender role masks. Just as education, awareness and rejection of stereotypes illuminates the constructed nature of “innate” gender roles, the illumination of lights on beeswax masks melts the solid nature of masks into a flowing mutable state that is both destroying and reconstructing gender roles.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQeRGAjYNDtPEnmGTzS_I0uhbBidmvv1E5cOa6KR1kOToiQmlFinHGrVBzCmN24Bv-EzPiPa7zjp5Us7MZlnCYA6KAI215_7NrCHkm8VuZ1EDajI-dDycbSf6qHYnel9awgANC-60z_rM/s1600-h/Melted+Gender+Masks+3.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 268px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQeRGAjYNDtPEnmGTzS_I0uhbBidmvv1E5cOa6KR1kOToiQmlFinHGrVBzCmN24Bv-EzPiPa7zjp5Us7MZlnCYA6KAI215_7NrCHkm8VuZ1EDajI-dDycbSf6qHYnel9awgANC-60z_rM/s400/Melted+Gender+Masks+3.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5273865486041322066" /></a><br />Some pink and blue beeswax combines into a new and different colour close to green, the colour coded as “neutral” for newborns and children. The words also are freed from their associations to mix and cross boundaries. English as a language is facing a new construction of hybridity and gender neutrality, with transgender recognition as a valid gender choice as well as a push to neutrality in pronouns through the use of “them” or “they” as singular alternatives to “she” and “he”, or even adopting other languages’ neutral pronouns such as “sie”, “hir” and “zir”. Gendered language and social roles are changing alongside the changing masks.<br />However, gendered behaviour has not been cast aside. Along with the creation of hybridity, trans-gendered identification and neutrality is the reproduction of gender roles. Thus, the beeswax masks melting onto the next generation of blank masks carry the potential for hybridity with mixing of gendered words and colours and the potential for continued gender categories. The masks are not all automatically new or hybrid. Gender roles are carried on, and gendered words and colours are still part of the next generation of masks where no boundary-crossing has occurred. The masks are a continual construction through time, and are part of the long history of society. The paper the masks are on is a scroll, with rolls at the top of time gone by and room at the bottom for the next generation of blank masks to be added. Gender roles are reconstructed throughout time, slowly changing through the meaning of the words themselves. <br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitGb_3Sg5bLVhlcQkw_AkKxGjCGefF9kE5_7k9wfpr21kSQvfqFVCM2nbziy6Fk1aHb8W2DiwXTKkKIylPJb9qAoONVjQY3R5rqBTcu6fMLTqiIHWdohBLyUJKCIfBS7Tox-diA3F_apw/s1600-h/Melted+Gender+Masks+2.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 268px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitGb_3Sg5bLVhlcQkw_AkKxGjCGefF9kE5_7k9wfpr21kSQvfqFVCM2nbziy6Fk1aHb8W2DiwXTKkKIylPJb9qAoONVjQY3R5rqBTcu6fMLTqiIHWdohBLyUJKCIfBS7Tox-diA3F_apw/s400/Melted+Gender+Masks+2.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5273865481135918098" /></a><br />The masks people inherit and construct for their own understanding of gender, appropriate behaviour and boundaries of their society change gradually, just as the wax drips slowly. It takes time to illuminate people and enable change in gender categorizations, as it changes the foundations of cultural reproduction and transmission – language.<br /><br />Thanks to AetherLumina (http://www.aetherlumina.com/gnp/faq.html) for providing the most concise and clear information on gender neutral changes in English language.Nat Drazhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06273097921327690380noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7303338243544634194.post-80077384906156253162008-11-28T15:51:00.000-08:002008-12-04T21:32:47.603-08:00Heart Transplant<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNG4FSCS_rx_YxzoS0uZ7KaHIgwhto4yexUkujz8SEsQ03Ykn_AnnMAQZD6_iEB5BxTkKfvgb9EptjtkRe4FUEv38Xr28vdqnv1YeS4Q65GwqZPcfewh3tn1NLF56HFkOlsR_D_XrEbuI/s1600-h/VIS204+Natural+Aorta+1.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 268px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNG4FSCS_rx_YxzoS0uZ7KaHIgwhto4yexUkujz8SEsQ03Ykn_AnnMAQZD6_iEB5BxTkKfvgb9EptjtkRe4FUEv38Xr28vdqnv1YeS4Q65GwqZPcfewh3tn1NLF56HFkOlsR_D_XrEbuI/s400/VIS204+Natural+Aorta+1.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5273860815215864178" /></a><br />Peering into the vault, a single light reveals the chestnut heart suspended above the operating table of catalpa bean pods. The sewn catalpa bean pods form the top layer of the surgery table, while the chestnut heart awaits its transplant, swaying gently with the faint heartbeat of the room. <br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeoY-VKKz8E_BAp8AyfWEm9evFDX4EX3sYlaf7J4cJmL1UszeQRYhFS_y1uL_cO7JpH03iMcjB8Ld1gQU1U6qGf5o2fULBI8gYdKbtq34JQO1LZlL1wz2hu1D2UY7iCIlhDzLxdadbumc/s1600-h/VIS204+Natural+Aorta+2.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 268px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeoY-VKKz8E_BAp8AyfWEm9evFDX4EX3sYlaf7J4cJmL1UszeQRYhFS_y1uL_cO7JpH03iMcjB8Ld1gQU1U6qGf5o2fULBI8gYdKbtq34JQO1LZlL1wz2hu1D2UY7iCIlhDzLxdadbumc/s400/VIS204+Natural+Aorta+2.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5273860819498265474" /></a><br />One Spadina’s vaults were created when it was used as a military hospital during WWI, and continue today to hold organ transplants for the Eye Bank of Canada. The vault is a place of storage and security for transplants. The vault offers protection and security: a sterile environment that can easily be cleaned, with a drain underneath the table, and hermetically sealed with the solid locking door. <br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-SrwP0bacRzemMX4LxAOP4Nsrc_9ghpmVSXmXJh0oZA1IYs4ejRE16TPfU7tainGI7q48pRTQI5S_dt_ycwu3cv92hDu1ULQnP0R6oxtIsWxMjOMOD9pV5dcMik7inn797gxe1_jCb4w/s1600-h/VIS204+Natural+Aorta+12.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 268px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-SrwP0bacRzemMX4LxAOP4Nsrc_9ghpmVSXmXJh0oZA1IYs4ejRE16TPfU7tainGI7q48pRTQI5S_dt_ycwu3cv92hDu1ULQnP0R6oxtIsWxMjOMOD9pV5dcMik7inn797gxe1_jCb4w/s400/VIS204+Natural+Aorta+12.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5273860827505307314" /></a><br />Much like the vault, the heart is a container that protects the most precious aspects of human experience: memories, love and loss. The scroll hidden within the chestnut heart describes those protected memories, and the spiky exterior wards off potential harm. The heart is an organ for transplant, and will be given to another in hopes of giving life.<br />The idea of organ transplant, specifically the exchanging of hearts, exists in written form from 400 AD, when a Chinese physician Bian Que is credited with balancing the nature of two warriors by exchanging their hearts (and thus their intrinsic natures). The apparent interchangeability of organs today exists in tension between the idea of a human as an organic being in nature and a human as a mechanical system. Heart transplants place an individual heart in the context of a machine ‘cog’ that can be replaced by another heart. However, the heart is also a natural material, and carries a connotation of intrinsic nature that is inscribed on it by the person. My chestnut heart has been extracted from the original body, but carries within it a scroll written with the previous owner’s memories and loves. The mythology of an organ having an individual’s nature permanently attached to it has lasted from Chinese mythology over a thousand years ago to pop culture references such as The Simpson’s, with Homer undergoing a hair transplant one Halloween that carries with it the previous owner’s murderous nature. The heart transplant is not a dead organ. It is a living entity that must be carefully protected and kept alive until it is transplanted into the next human body. However, the life of the heart must be maintained. When the heartbeat ceases and decay sets in, a heart can no longer be used. However faint, the chestnut heart still has a heartbeat that can be heard.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXgrEuNGyTTFfBof7fwrOtJ0VaermP5AsDzZw_cGlIHcBrKbzfkVE6q9tkliJhDxURhmPzThYw9zSDsrQK9rpUQcP_qsKhPAzrIxZMRSHhKvvYjvh_B3L74_r7z9WKM7nohAPwC_979Vo/s1600-h/VIS204+Natural+Aorta+13.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 268px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXgrEuNGyTTFfBof7fwrOtJ0VaermP5AsDzZw_cGlIHcBrKbzfkVE6q9tkliJhDxURhmPzThYw9zSDsrQK9rpUQcP_qsKhPAzrIxZMRSHhKvvYjvh_B3L74_r7z9WKM7nohAPwC_979Vo/s400/VIS204+Natural+Aorta+13.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5273860833951569442" /></a><br />The ‘natural’ chestnut heart not only carries an intrinsic nature of the individual it was from, but also carries a foreign nature to the body it is being transplanted into. Just as the heart is a foreign object being introduced into a natural system, the chestnut shells that form the heart are a foreign European transplant in contrast to the Native Catalpa tree bean pods. The sweet European chestnut trees were transplanted into North America after blight destroyed the native chestnut lineage. The chestnut tree transplant has been successful, and shows no sign of rejection. A heart is not merely a piece of a mechanical system that is interchangeable. Instead, a heart is a culturally constructed place of memory that cannot be forgotten, and is particular to one individual. However, just as foreign plants can be successfully introduced into a native environment, hearts also can be transplanted and become natural to a new person.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirn7qus0zoNfUTU_0a1fq6300ovJXIDfmel7iBbCIWr2OYfKugytkix9sjuiArXdiRsX0h-q94kDOjvtPJu1T9Rv7wQ8icVr5fZcwD2oh_YOf-obTZ_QEpNoZ6esIRKuK-OAMacdIov3c/s1600-h/VIS204+Natural+Aorta+14.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 268px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirn7qus0zoNfUTU_0a1fq6300ovJXIDfmel7iBbCIWr2OYfKugytkix9sjuiArXdiRsX0h-q94kDOjvtPJu1T9Rv7wQ8icVr5fZcwD2oh_YOf-obTZ_QEpNoZ6esIRKuK-OAMacdIov3c/s400/VIS204+Natural+Aorta+14.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5273860840239663138" /></a><br />Shown from Dec. 2-7, 2008 at "The Eyeball", 1 Spadina Crescent.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgK5I2ruDXkaIP8ismzhVwm7VlY1rGizUv2yPDlLO-xa6nbnTrTrsFFgNx1pnNgIrpwPnrUb0r56bgAg2Bg3rUQBp1Gv75YEf5TqOzNaCV36IB7ceES0joXgXcIQMdcZhDhurQokrARCAc/s1600-h/n28124899_46002135_5039.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgK5I2ruDXkaIP8ismzhVwm7VlY1rGizUv2yPDlLO-xa6nbnTrTrsFFgNx1pnNgIrpwPnrUb0r56bgAg2Bg3rUQBp1Gv75YEf5TqOzNaCV36IB7ceES0joXgXcIQMdcZhDhurQokrARCAc/s400/n28124899_46002135_5039.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5276174572748464418" /></a>Nat Drazhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06273097921327690380noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7303338243544634194.post-51913390919976092832008-11-23T11:09:00.000-08:002008-11-23T11:23:41.296-08:00Whodunit? Whogotit?Now that OCAD's Whodunit has finished (Nov. 19-22, 2008: OCAD Main Floor Gallery), I can't help but wonder whogotit - my pieces, that is. If you're the lucky owner of my flocked pigment biohazard birthday cake or my intaglio figure, congratulations and thanks for supporting OCAD and the arts!<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHk2v33w2YPnu1UsShgKcAuRhajpQPkSjsudRoEDinRvqn3stltnBqQqFjSI1Ms08Q-hSWdAxb9lHL-mGxAT3CyIz4k8743BGtD4XWEfYTKsoub32d7BArONOUgAUujl3lCQP3s77E35Y/s1600-h/lrg-1154-936.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 295px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHk2v33w2YPnu1UsShgKcAuRhajpQPkSjsudRoEDinRvqn3stltnBqQqFjSI1Ms08Q-hSWdAxb9lHL-mGxAT3CyIz4k8743BGtD4XWEfYTKsoub32d7BArONOUgAUujl3lCQP3s77E35Y/s400/lrg-1154-936.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5271935750028966658" /></a><br /><br />LOT NUMBER: 936<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMhvOfvz-lKooqo3aWNNqySazBb6NePsUdLLjwbbW94iHLPwT4stePU8jlB8an5zfh5RB7Xqyu-ALXcpQ0RJbuWWUk6_IguVHjB8l4sWUxQJRl3-hMeQP-sC3Vv25xaRb_eLG-BeNKNj4/s1600-h/lrg-165-1146.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 265px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMhvOfvz-lKooqo3aWNNqySazBb6NePsUdLLjwbbW94iHLPwT4stePU8jlB8an5zfh5RB7Xqyu-ALXcpQ0RJbuWWUk6_IguVHjB8l4sWUxQJRl3-hMeQP-sC3Vv25xaRb_eLG-BeNKNj4/s400/lrg-165-1146.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5271934810778824306" /></a><br /><br />LOT NUMBER: 1146Nat Drazhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06273097921327690380noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7303338243544634194.post-41813194758205776512008-11-22T18:10:00.000-08:002008-12-06T21:44:14.384-08:00Tie-Stupa<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDtBqeNwWjP-T-1PLyDhhcxzeNyHyvvvN7q9UtP0L5Hli2oljwQHEJHWG_Ejh_ZkNgrud2qZJmDXHeRcw_FxxyZEkhjSYx8Qb9dFdCx0klXbaK6sIob9TyON2hKVddRLhHGR6z3iHKJm8/s1600-h/VIS204+Found+Objects+4.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDtBqeNwWjP-T-1PLyDhhcxzeNyHyvvvN7q9UtP0L5Hli2oljwQHEJHWG_Ejh_ZkNgrud2qZJmDXHeRcw_FxxyZEkhjSYx8Qb9dFdCx0klXbaK6sIob9TyON2hKVddRLhHGR6z3iHKJm8/s400/VIS204+Found+Objects+4.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5271670386950892146" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLN_RYr-j0YaPClpI13hPvnFEcWklYUOWJswv648lrDlilNHLaRHScup4Q-i6Dq7CgFZzoEYfH3U2DbZZKMXRaEH8T5QNGvbYpBTd9qsv6EupFbb1nL9KTO4T2f7A1oKtLD-QPmgvePCU/s1600-h/VIS204+Found+Objects+2.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLN_RYr-j0YaPClpI13hPvnFEcWklYUOWJswv648lrDlilNHLaRHScup4Q-i6Dq7CgFZzoEYfH3U2DbZZKMXRaEH8T5QNGvbYpBTd9qsv6EupFbb1nL9KTO4T2f7A1oKtLD-QPmgvePCU/s400/VIS204+Found+Objects+2.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5271670381846635314" /></a><br />As a manufactured object, ties are strictly regulated. While patterns are varied, the width and length of a tie almost always remain a constant. The tie’s conventions reach beyond merely the tie to include the clothes a tie is worn with, economic class and social situations, and even have a hierarchy of tie knots, with the Double Windsor reserved for high-level meetings, the Half-Windsor as a daily executive choice, and the lowlier variations for casual business.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfHp6V3Q5tnAzFzFZqWoxH-BJRIPwVXEECOjr5Om1kS8cCNq5XoP77Zu4tDxSEnFvUlte7c7lmNc7Ji4vkoPzsAwa4so8G5OG7vkHajG81jivXeawR8qbOCPvOmo1mCqKGBmwzo3olRhA/s1600-h/VIS204+Found+Objects+13.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 267px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfHp6V3Q5tnAzFzFZqWoxH-BJRIPwVXEECOjr5Om1kS8cCNq5XoP77Zu4tDxSEnFvUlte7c7lmNc7Ji4vkoPzsAwa4so8G5OG7vkHajG81jivXeawR8qbOCPvOmo1mCqKGBmwzo3olRhA/s400/VIS204+Found+Objects+13.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5273859534519280594" /></a><br />The ideology of ties is engrained in the business world. As the base material for an artist, ties posit a very interesting set of relations between artist and business.<br />Ties are objects of restrictions. They began as a royal insignia with Louis XIV, inspired by Croatian fashions, and have remained in the upper echelons of class and economic circumstances. While ties appear to have wide variety, they actually allow very little choice. Ties are in fact useless and functionless, but are considered necessary and symbols of power.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAsLg5aWrHqVDwYBdJaOC8UumXktqWw-KZZXkj_3r6FcPaAzPuNOfPm-zqp3U1a_iL3hP3lZr6tt6XQMwtH7VreKTyaT23_xSb7d1yz_n8En3EpG1DvWOFJy6lRoLqgEgVWiV_0Q35YC0/s1600-h/VIS204+Found+Objects+8.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAsLg5aWrHqVDwYBdJaOC8UumXktqWw-KZZXkj_3r6FcPaAzPuNOfPm-zqp3U1a_iL3hP3lZr6tt6XQMwtH7VreKTyaT23_xSb7d1yz_n8En3EpG1DvWOFJy6lRoLqgEgVWiV_0Q35YC0/s400/VIS204+Found+Objects+8.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5273859527282034354" /></a><br />The tie-tunnel is both an object and an environment. The act of journeying through narrowing ties, and the changing context of a person first walking, then crouching and finally crawling through the ties is a shift both in physical context and in symbolic movement. I was inspired by the Buddhist stupa, which is an ideology and an architectural object. The stupa is a physical representation of a mental focusing on Buddhist values of self-awareness in the context of a world much larger and grander than oneself. The tie-tunnel takes aspects of the stupa and recontextualizes them into ironic look at the ‘religion’ of business. <br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8OL9MqJO2QNVgtKspnVk7ueu1YdD5xxC_HxHWnJAd2Ft2VFCVVyQJqxm0tSJ7X90e_n-TBz6oEuxu2qgXcxabXnMj210KHDshVnX6K62dJAK2Qahj5VJpisya5WwalKb6WdskpPi1sO8/s1600-h/VIS204+Found+Objects+7.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 267px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8OL9MqJO2QNVgtKspnVk7ueu1YdD5xxC_HxHWnJAd2Ft2VFCVVyQJqxm0tSJ7X90e_n-TBz6oEuxu2qgXcxabXnMj210KHDshVnX6K62dJAK2Qahj5VJpisya5WwalKb6WdskpPi1sO8/s400/VIS204+Found+Objects+7.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5273859530113768146" /></a><br />The mental shift between business and art is symbolized in the tie-stupa as a physical move. While the move from art to business appears to be very easy, and the loose knots at the beginning of the stupa allow one to clearly see into the business world, it is much more difficult to enter it and the position one must assume to enter is as highly restrictive, as are ties.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgF0CyIVHbcKfPCA_n3fxj_aSxf8mniGkLK2oh1vlJHrNqILiGKmmX4pfKKU1Q34owxfggb9NNGsP2YucEQVltGpUCKB_y5A9f-6WrWOrnHgocG5mTyK2pyRLRef0nJ5xosDBCjuA01esE/s1600-h/VIS204+Found+Objects+6.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 267px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgF0CyIVHbcKfPCA_n3fxj_aSxf8mniGkLK2oh1vlJHrNqILiGKmmX4pfKKU1Q34owxfggb9NNGsP2YucEQVltGpUCKB_y5A9f-6WrWOrnHgocG5mTyK2pyRLRef0nJ5xosDBCjuA01esE/s400/VIS204+Found+Objects+6.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5273859525712767106" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpCRNoHJHjJ1dTyIwt2p00wEV8pH0kc7Z-fVFKkYYS_fyqmPa3aQwnkbMk8kL9asw-_g04_mhSAk-emqrjboIqls79kOz_bmqtAVNtKvs9HBLPmqjXSQyMePv56h_2ijMPvLOqXhu3gm0/s1600-h/VIS204+Found+Objects+5.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 314px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpCRNoHJHjJ1dTyIwt2p00wEV8pH0kc7Z-fVFKkYYS_fyqmPa3aQwnkbMk8kL9asw-_g04_mhSAk-emqrjboIqls79kOz_bmqtAVNtKvs9HBLPmqjXSQyMePv56h_2ijMPvLOqXhu3gm0/s400/VIS204+Found+Objects+5.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5273859517739498162" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgazFKUWotGyjPJPcE2KxvyTpWdfZrL8CCl5xzdSpz5gIkFgMxzXdZQfFyHB_svHk_nLHpVbCxjSZ_rypLZZgoZ2Zeq1uo9dSEh_DRLYy5PoGotnebwaG93OptTerZCxIGxk8_XaR6EPLE/s1600-h/VIS204+Found+Objects+18.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 267px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgazFKUWotGyjPJPcE2KxvyTpWdfZrL8CCl5xzdSpz5gIkFgMxzXdZQfFyHB_svHk_nLHpVbCxjSZ_rypLZZgoZ2Zeq1uo9dSEh_DRLYy5PoGotnebwaG93OptTerZCxIGxk8_XaR6EPLE/s400/VIS204+Found+Objects+18.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5273859943904036994" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDVLE02lDA92ywDlYk5nRR75Ex3AhjYp63Z5rxthGBpSvSEOuqS9QYnURRwS50txVuzJQWUXP6-A81Rs3DzK-OCyDqb7orFTvXdWxp5krmp84OPDVesEh9sFRWgaix9Af-Ec63f54HwD8/s1600-h/VIS204+Found+Objects+16.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDVLE02lDA92ywDlYk5nRR75Ex3AhjYp63Z5rxthGBpSvSEOuqS9QYnURRwS50txVuzJQWUXP6-A81Rs3DzK-OCyDqb7orFTvXdWxp5krmp84OPDVesEh9sFRWgaix9Af-Ec63f54HwD8/s400/VIS204+Found+Objects+16.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5273859939515474850" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0VI3MsYxYLpe1LDlttc44P0hpXHkqgA4_euERlRmPiQ3jwjD5cSC0VQ3VvLwwH7AGrf865BO9tQjfl94kFg0ZhfJrvhrPemiQNDF5llN_WnCCAeBfHi_BNj_h8QrJ6Z8Tn6Tg7h_k75k/s1600-h/VIS204+Found+Objects+14.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0VI3MsYxYLpe1LDlttc44P0hpXHkqgA4_euERlRmPiQ3jwjD5cSC0VQ3VvLwwH7AGrf865BO9tQjfl94kFg0ZhfJrvhrPemiQNDF5llN_WnCCAeBfHi_BNj_h8QrJ6Z8Tn6Tg7h_k75k/s400/VIS204+Found+Objects+14.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5273859938361597778" /></a><br /><br />The Tie-Stupa was re-installed in the Case Goods Warehouse of the Distillery District for Nuit Blanche 2008.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLMeYuqEaMXsEIHLa8LMqF2OQus9qzXPT9OJrg7S0pRznBWNEaJBn9YhfzRj8TK8qq7dCNgrQK4srpYCSF34KtQOIMPshplBGw8A2ZBBGU8IFeYb6mW_r3qnMwVVDMc756CFL5WdA4YFw/s1600-h/Art+Projects+7.jpg"><img style="display:block; 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margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 267px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicFs_jM3-XcXhaqvqgLs3ihA7IkSNrin4AVRs6qiRYWHZUSY9hcXnbzv4Bf26oTH7kCrhm_LL39KNsvycYhUm1vQQ4pa4DUOuuLPTvqesYe72vAC0d4cjnJIgGjkRjPtXNWURIJG9tdlA/s400/Tie+Stupa+at+UC+Art+Lounge+18.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5276919731450338578" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0TANsBj17Zov6JHvElzoogy0OyzkEuC8vacQYeYlzJdSuJGAMYWqmw6rZowB4lERJL4q9xiUylIuN_-WPow840S7bvmpdlzvwohCh7Fhp9Xm59Dz_3Aym0MoeMcFunV_56AWWPV5kaG0/s1600-h/Tie+Stupa+at+UC+Art+Lounge+17.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0TANsBj17Zov6JHvElzoogy0OyzkEuC8vacQYeYlzJdSuJGAMYWqmw6rZowB4lERJL4q9xiUylIuN_-WPow840S7bvmpdlzvwohCh7Fhp9Xm59Dz_3Aym0MoeMcFunV_56AWWPV5kaG0/s400/Tie+Stupa+at+UC+Art+Lounge+17.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5276919728861841890" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhw9TB8yawexo20bxoToY7t0Z48QHBgwnf4BNAmdLPRi4JgiYlzn_a2k2xbodPh7JrmxKp0fiBtG0ByUPr6gva0gahtpy-CnrTwu0uGyLfRrmmBbzTC73EX_5XUEg8xod3T79ZCT_-hI6U/s1600-h/Tie+Stupa+at+UC+Art+Lounge+16.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 267px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhw9TB8yawexo20bxoToY7t0Z48QHBgwnf4BNAmdLPRi4JgiYlzn_a2k2xbodPh7JrmxKp0fiBtG0ByUPr6gva0gahtpy-CnrTwu0uGyLfRrmmBbzTC73EX_5XUEg8xod3T79ZCT_-hI6U/s400/Tie+Stupa+at+UC+Art+Lounge+16.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5276919726323555410" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7vZm5xyiiqxMK8FzruKdbO6CkmBPU7_Y7Kl3n5zCzy-tB4ZEVqxW3m82qt7tVa1yZrzPCYVyCCYTdKp0DePyE8d8btYWSzp3q0_bdUMACyzOkgdETQfL4QQPDgD7GuP8PCgrWT-KRJDE/s1600-h/Tie+Stupa+at+UC+Art+Lounge+15.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 267px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7vZm5xyiiqxMK8FzruKdbO6CkmBPU7_Y7Kl3n5zCzy-tB4ZEVqxW3m82qt7tVa1yZrzPCYVyCCYTdKp0DePyE8d8btYWSzp3q0_bdUMACyzOkgdETQfL4QQPDgD7GuP8PCgrWT-KRJDE/s400/Tie+Stupa+at+UC+Art+Lounge+15.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5276919723564258242" /></a>Nat Drazhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06273097921327690380noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7303338243544634194.post-90740031746653373572008-11-22T07:43:00.000-08:002008-11-22T07:48:02.519-08:00Flocking<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWNcxhXsytMxBZ987gbABqN8__k4nq_RHJ3La5_BvjPxSFexHPgcWPuCQouMA8mmagr46L2xVUxjkEdezJOwAg7N43XxpvwFKhFcDVUbcgYjWr97Xirzl4ZkaMmG7c5J1ckQEzGui8dO4/s1600-h/Flocked+Monoprint+-+Fish+1.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 312px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWNcxhXsytMxBZ987gbABqN8__k4nq_RHJ3La5_BvjPxSFexHPgcWPuCQouMA8mmagr46L2xVUxjkEdezJOwAg7N43XxpvwFKhFcDVUbcgYjWr97Xirzl4ZkaMmG7c5J1ckQEzGui8dO4/s400/Flocked+Monoprint+-+Fish+1.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5271508825593562610" /></a><br /><br />"Duo" Flocked Monoprint 5x7<br /><br />This print is actually only half of the piece - the final product has two koi circling each other as a diptych, framed in a gray wood shadowbox.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqqRwypm3JdshaYVqKKRdsWujHXOaLkHOrF7YRN-66fsIjLwTRPWBcx7s1Q6VmHfxuYiLQhCvcpov66okdvbxwkVZeGoEiquyqglztmG6zxWTX4dxGqgKN7rSqQMH71fopezfIl0Ygk-Y/s1600-h/Flocked+Monprint+-+Mask.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 384px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqqRwypm3JdshaYVqKKRdsWujHXOaLkHOrF7YRN-66fsIjLwTRPWBcx7s1Q6VmHfxuYiLQhCvcpov66okdvbxwkVZeGoEiquyqglztmG6zxWTX4dxGqgKN7rSqQMH71fopezfIl0Ygk-Y/s400/Flocked+Monprint+-+Mask.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5271508167636965378" /></a><br /><br />"Mask" 5x5 Monoprint with Flocked Pigment<br /><br />Flocking with pigment instead of fibre is highly addictive! The pigment can be very sparse and spraypaint-esque or can block out the entire background. A great way to experiment with layers and colours, too.Nat Drazhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06273097921327690380noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7303338243544634194.post-43009260661190238962008-11-22T07:39:00.000-08:002008-11-22T07:41:01.918-08:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqhve2U1me9AaUtz8NkMHR2dY4m7z4QRzGIAdLv70BMP0s7SQOEdur26RjVyHkVZPQjq136QB065sM8Mwd2RcBBs2nXthI7qonLv3TKQ3RavPZFyo_hOqs9R9mOEaYKrm4bchIOFm50fg/s1600-h/18x24+Intaglio+Print.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 260px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqhve2U1me9AaUtz8NkMHR2dY4m7z4QRzGIAdLv70BMP0s7SQOEdur26RjVyHkVZPQjq136QB065sM8Mwd2RcBBs2nXthI7qonLv3TKQ3RavPZFyo_hOqs9R9mOEaYKrm4bchIOFm50fg/s400/18x24+Intaglio+Print.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5271507270806999746" /></a><br /><br />"Queen" 18x24 IntaglioNat Drazhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06273097921327690380noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7303338243544634194.post-65009142084785693052008-10-22T17:11:00.000-07:002008-11-22T07:51:33.259-08:00Textile Museum Fundraiser<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVxEQYZiFEV9GTjXYdN_mSBm1V0nOOMkif_GRsRN39ywFX0fXA5OF7_0pB7Gr0BWDPw2MeABXnojNug_Sz5eao1YyerYnf0oBG24mEoE9IJQ0NLknBU0Az5frQBfFaqxJIxJmNPaqJR14/s1600-h/Drajewicz_lg.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVxEQYZiFEV9GTjXYdN_mSBm1V0nOOMkif_GRsRN39ywFX0fXA5OF7_0pB7Gr0BWDPw2MeABXnojNug_Sz5eao1YyerYnf0oBG24mEoE9IJQ0NLknBU0Az5frQBfFaqxJIxJmNPaqJR14/s400/Drajewicz_lg.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5260136013767009074" /></a><br />I contributed a pigment monoprint to the Toronto Textile Museum's annual fundraiser, on until October 31 2008.<br /><br />http://www.textilemuseum.ca/microsites/shadowbox2008/drajewicz.html<br /><br />Update: This piece is now sold! Thanks to all the artists and art-lovers that contributed to the Textile Museum.Nat Drazhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06273097921327690380noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7303338243544634194.post-36388300830971187492008-09-05T09:01:00.000-07:002008-09-05T09:06:56.844-07:00Nuit Blanche 2007<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-CIQ5Zi4wrL2QN_C9A7kLVcmAtxoUc2kzLa28VA5mOyFfESoIZAoRuB9Wvt3q6RCgO-lElP5btZAimuzb2uS_RYQ_sQwQaTd4SZUHDBBoClj7ut_Pdz9rkxtE8gOzK37cOhK6BHM4c1g/s1600-h/DSCF0205-1.png"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-CIQ5Zi4wrL2QN_C9A7kLVcmAtxoUc2kzLa28VA5mOyFfESoIZAoRuB9Wvt3q6RCgO-lElP5btZAimuzb2uS_RYQ_sQwQaTd4SZUHDBBoClj7ut_Pdz9rkxtE8gOzK37cOhK6BHM4c1g/s400/DSCF0205-1.png" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5242569124143617810" /></a><br /><br /><br />I was the interactive photographer for Nuit Blanche 2007 at PROOF, taking over two hundred photos of participants that then became the art on the walls as the night went on. See a collection of some photos at: http://proofnuitblanche2007.blogspot.com/<br /><br />Nuit Blanche 2008 is coming up on October 4, 2008 with the theme of secrets. Come be photographed - we provide the masks and you provide the secrets!Nat Drazhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06273097921327690380noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7303338243544634194.post-86312598823372298672008-09-05T08:59:00.001-07:002008-11-22T07:42:56.973-08:00Chinese Year of the Rat<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhp40w5wDBCbzNIUoDDAdTbihwGxY87X5nxZ8WT9I19R3J9Wf2Enw-C5xiQ1jct59lLTv888dc1Li5diBxxQw5rYMSbFDz3DQANHqjEz39rNUHssvIFTTcor_ryVNkM3cZVdBzBxed9YhU/s1600-h/DSC_0044.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 305px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhp40w5wDBCbzNIUoDDAdTbihwGxY87X5nxZ8WT9I19R3J9Wf2Enw-C5xiQ1jct59lLTv888dc1Li5diBxxQw5rYMSbFDz3DQANHqjEz39rNUHssvIFTTcor_ryVNkM3cZVdBzBxed9YhU/s400/DSC_0044.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5271507710479631826" /></a><br /><br />"Labyrinth" 11x14 Linot-Cut with Chine Collé<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8y9603bRX7OQVxR_AG3-Ijsq7qxIxsFH5GUB3pXLgEBcipQXjg442RDXDW-hUpP6bpFSX88PvOR3hnu_6kjCKGBC43-98f_3tzi_GeYQlAgLXk_wjP0nvyI8QKB5NsotvvK-lix8SSAQ/s1600-h/Year+of+the+RAT+blog-5.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8y9603bRX7OQVxR_AG3-Ijsq7qxIxsFH5GUB3pXLgEBcipQXjg442RDXDW-hUpP6bpFSX88PvOR3hnu_6kjCKGBC43-98f_3tzi_GeYQlAgLXk_wjP0nvyI8QKB5NsotvvK-lix8SSAQ/s400/Year+of+the+RAT+blog-5.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5242567967725537714" /></a><br /><br />"Tree-Rat" 11x14 4 Plate Lino-Cut<br /><br /><br />My prints for the Chinese New Year show at PROOF.<br /><br />See the complete blog at: http://yearoftheratprintexhibition.blogspot.com/Nat Drazhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06273097921327690380noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7303338243544634194.post-50824586211134792762008-09-05T08:51:00.000-07:002008-09-05T08:55:36.315-07:00Jazz Prints<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh73sXMlhfQbDkQBo_qvgPJqJ8MBn8pO2SLwvXoYSfFbLZ8Qnp_t9TTPrU6O8eTwGa6Ycnsz0fVeqd6DjpYgHO7XCBeHLM7JZEsNhjhOGbQNKq-h0Q1vrOLe1wkunlXVn9GqENl4bSG6zA/s1600-h/Natalie+Drajewicz+Bass.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh73sXMlhfQbDkQBo_qvgPJqJ8MBn8pO2SLwvXoYSfFbLZ8Qnp_t9TTPrU6O8eTwGa6Ycnsz0fVeqd6DjpYgHO7XCBeHLM7JZEsNhjhOGbQNKq-h0Q1vrOLe1wkunlXVn9GqENl4bSG6zA/s320/Natalie+Drajewicz+Bass.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5242565733006914850" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxA624SkS-MDuozzBCu6nHwm1ra3Gdot5OS5tl1eD8YZhOgTLhQtxQU3QrNkBvORLYCuKDe9MRuFkPJc9MwDnbGJqwzOPlvgXDsoGlY_C1lRBbJAV5tgXMZrGpxG4Rb7hSz91m9JcCx0A/s1600-h/Natalie+Drajewicz+Horn.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxA624SkS-MDuozzBCu6nHwm1ra3Gdot5OS5tl1eD8YZhOgTLhQtxQU3QrNkBvORLYCuKDe9MRuFkPJc9MwDnbGJqwzOPlvgXDsoGlY_C1lRBbJAV5tgXMZrGpxG4Rb7hSz91m9JcCx0A/s320/Natalie+Drajewicz+Horn.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5242565737248441810" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEia2yztiySy4tbowKmQ0hou0eifZ4qDdL0sjwxQT0dg_KotjGL5_u21Cufh9okTDPDgfsRZF1osj5TV0lYYjSUrtEu9La8yiP08oPNyY_TI4KMzalG1rXPY4DOVah992VUzxBUUaBYv0UY/s1600-h/Natalie+Drajewicz+Sax.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEia2yztiySy4tbowKmQ0hou0eifZ4qDdL0sjwxQT0dg_KotjGL5_u21Cufh9okTDPDgfsRZF1osj5TV0lYYjSUrtEu9La8yiP08oPNyY_TI4KMzalG1rXPY4DOVah992VUzxBUUaBYv0UY/s320/Natalie+Drajewicz+Sax.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5242565744531918338" /></a><br /><br /><br />Three jazz-inspired monoprints. These prints are being exhibited at the All-Canadian Jazz Festival from September 19 - September 21, 2008.Nat Drazhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06273097921327690380noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7303338243544634194.post-52156143684079722502008-03-19T21:29:00.000-07:002008-11-22T18:07:15.169-08:00'Embellishments' - Festival of the Arts Photography Exhibition"Embellishments" - A Photographic Exhibition<br /><br />The intersection of two historically suppressed embellishments through digital photography.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjb19EYGxT17pRcn76tX3jWlleQ9Ec_7dPQDk4P7h_FUbLSA2ba9Bc6xMjY-h2xy8UYMb0aTFIUISnvulPqyza08jVc7N0P_WFUIIbY3Ly2akJQMx3mVv6R2dG-hoF0v1n8jB2fp93wimw/s1600-h/Embellishments+Invite+(e-mail).jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjb19EYGxT17pRcn76tX3jWlleQ9Ec_7dPQDk4P7h_FUbLSA2ba9Bc6xMjY-h2xy8UYMb0aTFIUISnvulPqyza08jVc7N0P_WFUIIbY3Ly2akJQMx3mVv6R2dG-hoF0v1n8jB2fp93wimw/s400/Embellishments+Invite+(e-mail).jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5179677890451971474" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgU9uiBFhdovznQNgf9_gyHiOxsGd2fKpWVhFltopu4OAWLaP_p3O0Scw1nO9ktJMQD7YcWq1ekmpa8WSLnvnRhh5rEjlLGB_mFuIVmvAmthOD4USvRF7kzWe3iiqpLDYVrVBAlJdRJ3K8/s1600-h/Natalie+Drajewicz+-+Embellishments+1.png"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgU9uiBFhdovznQNgf9_gyHiOxsGd2fKpWVhFltopu4OAWLaP_p3O0Scw1nO9ktJMQD7YcWq1ekmpa8WSLnvnRhh5rEjlLGB_mFuIVmvAmthOD4USvRF7kzWe3iiqpLDYVrVBAlJdRJ3K8/s400/Natalie+Drajewicz+-+Embellishments+1.png" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5179678521812164002" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGqDo6knc5xcS3haOgSt5iksXm4qqVOpFmmU82L39L_8SHlOjzleSXXl_ezGompDUANbVC57nYH4AE6NMNVd__f9A1l5cB5rYaF4iRqJ2VVtfaq03PsZjH2BaposydyrxT5fWc1PA6PX0/s1600-h/Natalie+Drajewicz+-+Embellishments+2.png"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGqDo6knc5xcS3haOgSt5iksXm4qqVOpFmmU82L39L_8SHlOjzleSXXl_ezGompDUANbVC57nYH4AE6NMNVd__f9A1l5cB5rYaF4iRqJ2VVtfaq03PsZjH2BaposydyrxT5fWc1PA6PX0/s400/Natalie+Drajewicz+-+Embellishments+2.png" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5179678530402098610" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgebhFPUKoJIr7MkJGmWP6LAB_twSrNmE23ehZvp1PtNXBDPWLvumB-BfGcNrBsjh9pHupAgH0kK0MyDdelmm_8ZqI7xr2Wi4lSI2jfQIRndlJ5HiaMWvafpo1gDe3S8g4Eux8dtNtPPBw/s1600-h/Natalie+Drajewicz+-+Embellishments+3.png"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgebhFPUKoJIr7MkJGmWP6LAB_twSrNmE23ehZvp1PtNXBDPWLvumB-BfGcNrBsjh9pHupAgH0kK0MyDdelmm_8ZqI7xr2Wi4lSI2jfQIRndlJ5HiaMWvafpo1gDe3S8g4Eux8dtNtPPBw/s400/Natalie+Drajewicz+-+Embellishments+3.png" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5179678770920267202" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1m7iD91i5aHhesZtnFyoXjLAM8TgoOEA75bbBy_-sP5nTsTM-t9-Ua_rmXnWszdUMiePgRUufiVTPjE9CFV7cOTZzpiIcWqjbkL363oJfk0jlBxf-3ZopWyc4lgqwVAbM1-a2wasfQJs/s1600-h/Natalie+Drajewicz+-+Embellishments+4.png"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1m7iD91i5aHhesZtnFyoXjLAM8TgoOEA75bbBy_-sP5nTsTM-t9-Ua_rmXnWszdUMiePgRUufiVTPjE9CFV7cOTZzpiIcWqjbkL363oJfk0jlBxf-3ZopWyc4lgqwVAbM1-a2wasfQJs/s400/Natalie+Drajewicz+-+Embellishments+4.png" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5179678779510201810" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEie3UH9IKSvCG49bQY25HjoTRqv5IfxoOct3mbtFKjpUKNehNLvIY-cynGy-SRh-6hpDkY10BT9Q-oqbf8rYk2sE21cUgzDypZeNeG_mBNlOEDRckie75s-yo09Lv_IpnhDfSjelWdrJyo/s1600-h/Natalie+Drajewicz+-+Embellishments+5.png"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEie3UH9IKSvCG49bQY25HjoTRqv5IfxoOct3mbtFKjpUKNehNLvIY-cynGy-SRh-6hpDkY10BT9Q-oqbf8rYk2sE21cUgzDypZeNeG_mBNlOEDRckie75s-yo09Lv_IpnhDfSjelWdrJyo/s400/Natalie+Drajewicz+-+Embellishments+5.png" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5179678783805169122" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Historically both Victorian wallpaper and tattoos have been stigmatized as signs of deviancy, and now both have been consumed into mass media.<br /><br />Supported by the University of Toronto's Festival of the Arts<br /><br />Update: Pictures of the exhibition while up at St. Joseph's College, March 7-20, 2008.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-6omBYYNpcosVZ8-uydVm_3HcGhvP220bGoWYbJlO4yHGqpDaH-bog4QU5vqTe1_9lW_2-Kp413q7ngQN-zifJ1TbIWb0XOb_Xmz8ZwK0FNJczT-wC6EwfUEIiYf2Gwy2VIR6fwZEY34/s1600-h/DSC_0122.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 268px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-6omBYYNpcosVZ8-uydVm_3HcGhvP220bGoWYbJlO4yHGqpDaH-bog4QU5vqTe1_9lW_2-Kp413q7ngQN-zifJ1TbIWb0XOb_Xmz8ZwK0FNJczT-wC6EwfUEIiYf2Gwy2VIR6fwZEY34/s400/DSC_0122.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5271668268908938642" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCh6k2BXE-4M2IjAr2qWKdz5gROInHw0De-pzIrJ3M58P9ZKhrYwLIHlE0y236_nEsOBedn1ZdOkF9BtVaTqcBcnPhOEdGczXF94h3jCRI0oCBamJyqDDO7icfUN5xhrdjkm9J2wdE5Tg/s1600-h/DSC_0121.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 268px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCh6k2BXE-4M2IjAr2qWKdz5gROInHw0De-pzIrJ3M58P9ZKhrYwLIHlE0y236_nEsOBedn1ZdOkF9BtVaTqcBcnPhOEdGczXF94h3jCRI0oCBamJyqDDO7icfUN5xhrdjkm9J2wdE5Tg/s400/DSC_0121.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5271668268296168098" /></a><br /><br />Update: This show of photographs was also exhibited at the Toronto restaurant Le Bar Au Soupe, 164 Ossington Ave from September through November, 2008.Nat Drazhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06273097921327690380noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7303338243544634194.post-27900437682129684722008-02-06T16:02:00.000-08:002008-02-06T16:08:36.919-08:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsbBjPus9E6PxMwmfyizO6KD9IqDypNmOHPe4ZIUzTIllBNiKSjzEh6cGyKAZtdr6NRK5NB4y2Q9T0B2quwKPOidaUVxqPOtr3yNbRXbRpCGO5D35sJ7EbrVD2FIlHYpUev2ZABWy-plo/s1600-h/n28120150_34933676_3040.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsbBjPus9E6PxMwmfyizO6KD9IqDypNmOHPe4ZIUzTIllBNiKSjzEh6cGyKAZtdr6NRK5NB4y2Q9T0B2quwKPOidaUVxqPOtr3yNbRXbRpCGO5D35sJ7EbrVD2FIlHYpUev2ZABWy-plo/s400/n28120150_34933676_3040.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5164022046311894754" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoABNS4jdSInpJjVEoJNd96iacM466yZKfDK4kAHe6kHfMGpcl_s04TrbqU76FMPesm2O1a8Bn15JzsVB_pLpm7Xzf4Eghr_09nJCYurL6cAATLSXvSQWjUltmbTjanasdwyzyBOgh-BU/s1600-h/n28120150_34839754_1032.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoABNS4jdSInpJjVEoJNd96iacM466yZKfDK4kAHe6kHfMGpcl_s04TrbqU76FMPesm2O1a8Bn15JzsVB_pLpm7Xzf4Eghr_09nJCYurL6cAATLSXvSQWjUltmbTjanasdwyzyBOgh-BU/s400/n28120150_34839754_1032.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5164022054901829362" /></a><br /><br />This is a Buddha-esque head I created. It's a contrast between the ancient iconography of statues against the very new material of industrial styrofoam. This turned out beautifully, with great depth of flecks but is one of the more time-consuming projects I've taken on.<br />I started with two 2-inch thick 10 foot long board of industrial styrofoam (for the larger pebbles), and broke them into 3 foot pieces that I glued together to form a solid block. I then tried sculpting it down into a face with a variety of tools from paint scrapers to brushes, but all tools left a harsh line on the pebbles. I had to scrape the pebbles down into their shape using my bare hands (and learning along the way that styrofoam sticks everywhere - clothes, hair, floor, everything).<br />Once I had the shape it didn't get any easier. It turned out that spraypaint melts styrofoam, thus the paint had to be against applied by hand. Brushes turned out to be too flat, so I used tootbrushes to first get the medium gray colour, then again used toothbrushes to fleckle the highlights and lowlights for a better stone look.<br /><br />The final body is a colloboration - only the head is mine.Nat Drazhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06273097921327690380noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7303338243544634194.post-77024114760218825702008-02-06T15:49:00.001-08:002008-02-06T15:52:48.920-08:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqKMpesihfyXGJ-Nlat2zp0XCA_azLcCIDSon7DQEoE5otk0AqVPE9mQM9Wq8rdjrPU_9psM2xuUNzUMH4ZV8sWvBY1xv4S7zN_GSPzwUKalm3xYYumhWXjcDquNUhTkvuHgH5EotHGc0/s1600-h/DSC_0108.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqKMpesihfyXGJ-Nlat2zp0XCA_azLcCIDSon7DQEoE5otk0AqVPE9mQM9Wq8rdjrPU_9psM2xuUNzUMH4ZV8sWvBY1xv4S7zN_GSPzwUKalm3xYYumhWXjcDquNUhTkvuHgH5EotHGc0/s400/DSC_0108.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5164018855151193746" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiI0OeA2sd0fzPB0TAaYWqZbWrBPgxwmgsddTlcIgcjSOxTYFS0s4JVEfm28YSY6-IhnscZ3FJJWXpMKw-pe9df05R03H199H0-QENtr0J4EB6Zz7E7BBKLuMSHFdEXJQsUBYB9-stUkxg/s1600-h/DSC_0106.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiI0OeA2sd0fzPB0TAaYWqZbWrBPgxwmgsddTlcIgcjSOxTYFS0s4JVEfm28YSY6-IhnscZ3FJJWXpMKw-pe9df05R03H199H0-QENtr0J4EB6Zz7E7BBKLuMSHFdEXJQsUBYB9-stUkxg/s400/DSC_0106.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5164018777841782402" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjD9B4fGV2bqM8me-BK4nkRdhnVghQ-Rg1f__WX9eescmWoeYuI5UTf8QjqL8PJOoiJqgfraHak1pSlM-huqUf_s4uyEgUH5sPIrYanzql5huC3ulXdYEVCGx3dbXoVXLoWW-bindWLBW4/s1600-h/DSC_0105.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjD9B4fGV2bqM8me-BK4nkRdhnVghQ-Rg1f__WX9eescmWoeYuI5UTf8QjqL8PJOoiJqgfraHak1pSlM-huqUf_s4uyEgUH5sPIrYanzql5huC3ulXdYEVCGx3dbXoVXLoWW-bindWLBW4/s400/DSC_0105.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5164018644697796210" /></a><br /><br />Sheila's and my first foray into the highly competitive world of dessert sushi. Delicious and a perfect dessert for art students minus the highly sticky quality.Nat Drazhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06273097921327690380noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7303338243544634194.post-65568193239049003462008-02-06T15:45:00.000-08:002008-02-06T15:55:08.985-08:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiSti-lTt4vq_1nb8Ttj_1ocpNKZhqsSygPW-hoFAVwq79Awz9oQpOyOo4y4O6eI2NyZTfr9gJJukQE66cGgyDol4ylV0zBnpnP7m9Kl2ggGQOQa6chRfiuglZv-swwbQphng5L_BeLm0/s1600-h/DSC_0288.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiSti-lTt4vq_1nb8Ttj_1ocpNKZhqsSygPW-hoFAVwq79Awz9oQpOyOo4y4O6eI2NyZTfr9gJJukQE66cGgyDol4ylV0zBnpnP7m9Kl2ggGQOQa6chRfiuglZv-swwbQphng5L_BeLm0/s400/DSC_0288.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5164019984727592642" /></a><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiT2s-XLvocec8PYeq73CjoF2VJYqXg3iGlThdq_nK__reeqUdvxT_kuHGCBbkkazEue7Pl7mqjdDO2kY1BBoGREvYOmDGQkvONzDqyvb9_d35b68mwtbgur68JtRJCoi6xcFNzqpefHSQ/s1600-h/DSC_0284.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiT2s-XLvocec8PYeq73CjoF2VJYqXg3iGlThdq_nK__reeqUdvxT_kuHGCBbkkazEue7Pl7mqjdDO2kY1BBoGREvYOmDGQkvONzDqyvb9_d35b68mwtbgur68JtRJCoi6xcFNzqpefHSQ/s400/DSC_0284.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5164019864468508338" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj32gMRAn_AgSEKjXe-eat1FGdjkZTyMOIGhTbSjRfIeruc0MtKxbYVSqiUOuY0QAq-4xWmZf3hMM5SOdtSsNKCqREBqKFguGoKPHS9inF4oAyyR30QZY5So4fmf_P-aaNQMdSJdTgbbkM/s1600-h/DSC_0165.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj32gMRAn_AgSEKjXe-eat1FGdjkZTyMOIGhTbSjRfIeruc0MtKxbYVSqiUOuY0QAq-4xWmZf3hMM5SOdtSsNKCqREBqKFguGoKPHS9inF4oAyyR30QZY5So4fmf_P-aaNQMdSJdTgbbkM/s400/DSC_0165.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5164019727029554850" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />These two girls were performers at FAT: Fashion Alternatives Toronto, and had both an amazing set of costumes and an amazing act.<br />The three nights of the show had some great designers as well as some mundane ones (hint: if you could buy the exact same clothes at the Gap, why bother?)<br />The best part of photographing this show is the freedom the models are given to dance, run, scream and generally have real personality on the catwalk.Nat Drazhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06273097921327690380noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7303338243544634194.post-60341241300097389992008-02-06T15:42:00.000-08:002008-02-06T15:45:18.805-08:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtjRvhobqaJPtE50kTxwXiYuXggJBvGUoEeFVBZsH5zHztOmkpgrto_wQOXcbaHYruIOjCa6NRvtDCJIsCnjDd_d4i2yLTEmoM-57FcIhVTUAjoSCMydW8WfyYaVWZnjIuRzLKhuCy77I/s1600-h/Year+of+the+Pig+19.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtjRvhobqaJPtE50kTxwXiYuXggJBvGUoEeFVBZsH5zHztOmkpgrto_wQOXcbaHYruIOjCa6NRvtDCJIsCnjDd_d4i2yLTEmoM-57FcIhVTUAjoSCMydW8WfyYaVWZnjIuRzLKhuCy77I/s400/Year+of+the+Pig+19.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5164016789271924274" /></a><br /><br />"Baconneer"<br />Lino<br /><br />This was my printmaking piece for last year's Year of the Pig. The rest of the entries and the opening is at http://yearofthepigprintexhibition.blogspot.com/ .<br /><br />This was the first time I'd used a metallic ink, and I was very happy with the sheen it ended up with. The metallic ink was very pervasive and slowly ended up in the red, so over the edition the red gets very metallic.<br /><br />I have the Year of the Rooster and the Dog somewhere as well, but for now they'll consigned to the oblivion of past portfolios.Nat Drazhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06273097921327690380noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7303338243544634194.post-37966030640461948412008-02-06T15:39:00.000-08:002008-02-06T15:42:10.911-08:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiShXBc3qxuuzQMKAbboywb6h_ltGmzsvl081CVB5faWFOgc1FzXHCHiNVd7Kls1CdjyJVaJ2vj8oWfBaEXIWBQvHsvslKIhTGQ7zr67m2hxeN4Lq64CCSa5hMKheyVTbkjT1_WMUxkyV8/s1600-h/Alley+2+6.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiShXBc3qxuuzQMKAbboywb6h_ltGmzsvl081CVB5faWFOgc1FzXHCHiNVd7Kls1CdjyJVaJ2vj8oWfBaEXIWBQvHsvslKIhTGQ7zr67m2hxeN4Lq64CCSa5hMKheyVTbkjT1_WMUxkyV8/s400/Alley+2+6.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5164016076307353122" /></a><br /><br />'Cardboard Alley'<br /><br />This was my final pick for my alley project. I was happy with how it turned out, though if I created another one I would spend much more time pre-planning out the perspective, especially of the middle stall. It was fun to photograph this as well with a variety of sky ideas, and the fabric choice as well as the movement of light played a huge role in how the photograph turned out.Nat Drazhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06273097921327690380noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7303338243544634194.post-64485375299228454962008-02-06T15:21:00.000-08:002008-11-22T18:10:01.965-08:00Year of the Rat - Print 1<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzZ-RKKD-Bavv-lvqwNiSqJ-jRp3NWJMfnD4tz2M3awos_zDpAzYtq-Dz3rO4QsyEq-ppMAWci-eZG6YipJKkS_QIbouSpTC-7x6wTedW7GcDgJEJ_MBk3OOh4jDpjLIzfHXdHpdAVnEQ/s1600-h/Year+of+the+Rat.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzZ-RKKD-Bavv-lvqwNiSqJ-jRp3NWJMfnD4tz2M3awos_zDpAzYtq-Dz3rO4QsyEq-ppMAWci-eZG6YipJKkS_QIbouSpTC-7x6wTedW7GcDgJEJ_MBk3OOh4jDpjLIzfHXdHpdAVnEQ/s400/Year+of+the+Rat.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5164012197951884818" /></a><br /><br />'Tree-Rat'<br />3 Block Linocut with Reduction<br /><br />This year's contribution to the 2008 Year of the Rat Print Exhibition and Exchange at PROOF Studio Gallery. I actually had so much fun with this squirrely piece that I decided to do another rat piece for the show.<br /><br />Exhibited at PROOF Studio Gallery, February 2008.<br /><br />To see all the other entries as well as photographs of the opening:<br /><br />http://yearoftheratprintexhibition.blogspot.com/<br /><br />Update: Here are my prints among the others at PROOF Studio Gallery.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEx7YoURy3-J0WVLsGAltEZg1t6GMA37rh2XDZAFIESe_wRygaMFF7Vd9WrWG3rWvdpKkj1GkqcdZFSbXvwr0wuP0DzVHA8efp6XY44XRozw4UGDUCd1g7_3npusYdeoUvjy3wDqHOeIU/s1600-h/DSC_0044.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 268px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEx7YoURy3-J0WVLsGAltEZg1t6GMA37rh2XDZAFIESe_wRygaMFF7Vd9WrWG3rWvdpKkj1GkqcdZFSbXvwr0wuP0DzVHA8efp6XY44XRozw4UGDUCd1g7_3npusYdeoUvjy3wDqHOeIU/s400/DSC_0044.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5271668949760135170" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRxbfvx7pKh4DMxFTofqrMaKKafmyuW70duz-dRI0zZFF6m11EZF-z2aCefh_sGw7NEU2jahtYq9xgeN_UlX2YWw8bR90D8bH-K4eBAyhCPQCxAQa0In3k4-U9iEY6PBxSpCTnX38nVok/s1600-h/DSC_0041.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 268px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRxbfvx7pKh4DMxFTofqrMaKKafmyuW70duz-dRI0zZFF6m11EZF-z2aCefh_sGw7NEU2jahtYq9xgeN_UlX2YWw8bR90D8bH-K4eBAyhCPQCxAQa0In3k4-U9iEY6PBxSpCTnX38nVok/s400/DSC_0041.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5271668946571012946" /></a>Nat Drazhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06273097921327690380noreply@blogger.com0