"Water Gods Control the Seas"

For this project, I photographed a flat screen that had been installed at a new bus stop in Manhattan. There was an error message from the computer in the middle of the screen as a trailer for a show was playing on the screen. I thought the images were riveting and found it interesting how the error message just stubbornly "sat" in the middle of the screen as this amazing footage played on the screen. I was interested in capturing the images with my camera in a "still like" fashion. I then cut the error message out of the photos and "folded" the images together to create a new image All in all, I have about sixty images from this project that I would like to show. Please contact me @ aplupiani@gmail.com if you are interested in showing this work in your gallery/space.

Basic Themes for: "Water Gods Control the Seas" Photographic Essay
1) Appropriation
2) Physicality
3) Interaction with Environment
4) Copy right Public/Private
5) Landscape
6) Life and Death
7) Deconstruction
8) Still Image/Film

All images are digital photographs
Variable to scale starting at 4.5 x 9 inches
2008

Golf Ball Cosmology

18 x 24 inches
graphite and watercolor on archival paper
2008

Zaycho

4 x 4 inches
graphite on watercolor paper
2008

Giant Green Golf Ball

4' 7" x 5' 8"
Green tape drawing on wall
2008

TimeMachine

6 x 8 inches
watercolor on archival paper
2008

New Studio shots

Public Art Project. - FlamNatur

This is a mock up (photoshop) rendering of a public art project I plan to develop in the near future. The project is called "FlamNatur" and it's based on the idea of using a self styled logo, and embedding it into the urban landscape. I see so many unclaimed monumental public spaces out there in NYC, so I figured I would come up with a way of redefining these spaces using my own logo. Stay tuned!

You...Me

Medium: Paper, pencil
Dimensions: 18 x24 inches
Date: 2006

Contemplation...Meditation

Medium: Oil on board
Dimensions: 7 x 10 inches, 8 x 9 inches
Date: 2005

Mr. Smiley

Medium: Photograph, push-pins, pencil
Dimensions: 2 x3 inches, 1 x 1 inch
Year Made: 2006

Drawing Environment #1

Medium: Mixed Media
Dimensions: variable
Date: 2006

This is a photograph of Drawing Environment #1. I am taking the idea of a studio and creating an environment where the "studio" is a work of art in itself and acts as a staging area for drawings and other "art" situations. The drawings, paintings, and installation elements are completely interchangeable. This is why I am showing the elements of the studio in both fragment and whole form. Drawing Environment #1 will be completed after I have shown it in a market-oriented situation and the work is sold and/or transported into another environment.

Touch

Medium: digital image
Dimensions: 8 x 10 inches
Date: 2006

Sandals

medium: digital image
dimensions: 3 x 5 inches
Date: 2006

Rainbow

Medium: pencil, paper, push-pins
Dimensions: 18 x 24 inches
Date: 2006

Flam-Natur Installation 2005

Year: 2005
Medium: ink, wax, digital image on board
Size: 6 x 9 inches

I created an imaginary landscape and infused "hot rod flame" imagery into the trees and plants to create a sense of irony and loss.











Date of installation: Fall 2005
Medium: ink, wax, on digital images
Dimensions: variable

Painting studies (partial list) prior to FlamNatur:





all (3) studies:
Date: 2005
Medium: Oil, wax, on wood
Dimensions: 6 x 9 inches

Photo studies (partial list) prior to FlamNatur:







Date completed: 2005
Medium: retouched digital images
sizes: 2 x 3 inches to 4 x 5 inches