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Section Mixed Media

Mixed Media

Here, only artworks that involve multiple distinct materials are listed. A few of my Temnographs, which are generally snapshots (photographs) of specific ephemeral settings, associated with the use of variable backgrounds and artificial lighting techniques, have been fixed with a permanent background at the request of friends, who liked the photograph of those Temnographs and wanted to have them. Some of them are listed here. Otherwise, they are all listed under a separate section, where the technique is described in detail. Works that involve mixing different types of color pigments or their use side by side are generally listed under the dominant medium used for that artwork. For example, a work with tempera and acrylic pigments is listed under tempera, if acrylic is used merely to highlight a segment or enhance a particular feature of a subject. Works with predominantly textile as the base medium are listed separately.

Exploring Grandma Earth's Viscera and Glands
Spicy Slices of Grandma Earth

Exploring Grandma Earth's Viscera and Glands
& Often squeezing them dry

  • 2009
  • Mixed Media (see Ingredients below.) on hardboard
  • Hardboard Dimensions: 80 x 120cm.
  • Private Collection
Scenes & Ingredients
(Clockwise from top left)
Texts, Images or Scenes displayed Ingredients
Of a legendary island of cloves
Of book-less face-less slaves in endless rows
Crammed in mercantile ships
And perched on dhows		 Cloves
White & Black Pepper
That drove the exploration forward		Black & White Pepper
And that would blossom into:

Indentured Labor, Monocultures, Plantation Monoliths, Deforestation, Ocean Plunder, Rural Degradation, Exodus, and the ultimate paradise on Earth ...
The urban wage worker's cemented prison of busy schedules and congested, smoggy highways enhanced with the opium of Mass Media Entertainment, Thrillers, Murders, Rapes, and Celebrity Scandals, directly proportional to the ignorance of and callousness toward the immediate surroundings, family, community, and the biotope, imbued however with a hope of a reprise during the one month of vacations.
And that once again accelerated the demise of the remaining natives supplied with cheap alcohol.		Sugar
Tea
Coca
Coffee
Tobacco
Glimpses of Hell on Earth
But with a silver lining 		Volcano painted in acrylic basalt, slate, colored sand and decorated with a silver lining
From Rhea Inspired Artwork Title Text printed on HP Printer. The modern ink is coated with a fixative, impregnated and UV-protected _ should last at least for a few decades, even if that is something rather out of tune with our times!
Paleolithic Graffiti
Mission Mortal Toward Immortality 		Initial attempts at Immortality reproduced in acrylic by the artist, who, if not for the Muses, would probably also be suffering from this syndrome. However, I did occasionally scribble my name in dark caves and temple precincts during school excursions.
Ur-Grandpa´s Neolithic Grave Picture of a Neolithic grave, also UV-Protection coated. Source: National Geographic.
Stone Age Technology Rather drastically stylized Neolithic Tools in Acrylic and some copper pigments
Real Hi-Tech! Picture of an Aquanaut in Ocean Depths. Cave Divers. Also UV-protected. Source: National Geographic. Flyover made in acrylic and slate.
Staple Diets Wild Rice, Basmati, Noodles, and Lentils "cooked" in latex!
Grandma's Glandular Gems Metamorphic Rocks
Her gifts and her grandchildren's toys and modified accessories Stone(some precious, some not), Wood, Iron, Bronze (acrylic pigments), Copper, Silver, Gold, Wheat (flour) ...and of course the Salt of the Earth.
Dynamic Matter with Kinetic Coins

Dynamic Matter with Kinetic Coins

  • 1998
  • Coins and dollar bills on glass
  • 28 x 80cm.
Ariadne and Theseus

Ariadne & Theseus

  • 2009
  • Oil, acrylic, clay, terracota, string roll, plastic and sand on canvas
  • 80 x 100cm
Rhapsody in Red

Rhapsody in Red

  • 1999
  • Temnograph. Paper, cut-out carton and tempera on carton.
  • 55.5 x 97.5cm
  • Private Collection

Opera 1

Opera 1

  • 1985
  • Paper, drawing pins & watercolors on styrofoam board
  • 35 x 70cm

Ritual Dance

Ritual Dance

  • 2002
  • Temnograph. Paper, cut-out carton and tempera on carton.
  • 50 x 90cm
  • Private Collection

A Playful Homage to my Teachers

Venice

A Playful Homage to all of my Teachers
Especially the English and above all the Ancient Greeks

  • 2001
  • Wood, paper, silicon, sand, acrylic and a piece of chalk on canvas
  • 100 x 80cm
  • Private Collection

Self Portrait

Self Portrait

  • 1989
  • Mixed Media on a window frame
  • Painted Inset: 49.5 x 75cm
  • Overall: 60.5 x 87cm

German magazine pages and oil on a trashed window frame with a white lacquered wooden inset. The fresh oil paint coating on the already lacquered surface was scratched with needles and nails to bring out the contours of the images and then fixed with various fixatives.

Digital Collage Mixed Media

Digital Collage of Mixed Media Artworks

  • 1985-1995

Torn Pictures and Broken Glass Composition

Torn Pictures & Broken Glass Composition

Of joyous nuptials
Marriages on the rocks
& Hateful dramatic endings

  • 2000
  • Photo-papers, broken glass pieces, lacquer and primer on hardboard.
  • 60 x 80cm

Paper Assemblage: Printer Refuse

Paper Assemblage: Printer Refuse

  • 1987
  • Jute cord, iron nails, paper on hardboard
  • 70 x 80cm
Studies in Black and White

Studies in Black & White

From the Wonderful World of Tambourine Men

  • 1999
  • Vinyl Records with artist portraits (Lious Armstrong & Bob Dylan), textile, acrylic and latex on hardboard
  • 100 x 80cm
Bottleneck Eve, Jr.

Bottleneck Eve, Jr.

  • 2000
  • Electric cables, polyacryl, Polyester, styrofoam, lacquer and consumer products on hardboard
  • 104 x 60cm

Originally she was holding a wax apple, that I had purchased in Indonesia for the purpose, however during an apartment shift it fell off and got damaged. I never replaced it. This one is digitally recreated.

No Whale Ho!

No Whale Ho!

  • 2001
  • Photographs, plaster of paris, sand, granite, cement, paper, ink, acrylic, laquer and a sperm whale tooth on hard board
  • 100 x 70cm

The whale tooth in the montage is a present from Mr. Parsons, the ex-harpoonist (Lama Fa) turned sculptor from Lamalarep, Flores, Indonesia, that I got during my stay with him in September 1996, when the displayed photographs were shot. The full episode is narrated in my travel journal: Indonesia 2.

The Fall of the Berlin Wall

The Fall of the Berlin Wall
City Reunion

  • 1990
  • Photos shot in Berlin during the opening days of the Wall in Nov.1989, chain, lock, primer and lacquer on glass window frame
  • Overall: 58 x 77cm

After over two decades of life spent, at first, in the ominous shadow of the Berlin Wall, which, however strangely, became a normal and taken-for-granted everyday presence, the impossible happened. I was living very close to it, and on the night it fell (9.11.1989), my friends and I spent the whole night walking, taking pictures, and witnessing incredulously that it was really being torn apart by the people. Initially, for this work, I had a twisted iron reinforcement from a fallen segment of the wall, which I later replaced with a chain and a lock, after seeing a grave monument in the famous Dorotheen cemetery (Dorotheenstaedtischer Friedhof) in East Berlin. On the statues, which were enclosed in casing with a window, were inscribed Peace and Freedom in German, but the window frame was, for whatever reasons, shut with a lock and chain. I found it interesting to imagine that the lock to Freedom and nominally to Peace had somehow been opened. The sublimely lurking fear of a nuclear holocaust had suddenly disappeared, though we had too many exciting things happening to acknowledge this relief from a heavy weight. We all had somehow managed to keep this fact at a safe distance from our awareness. The cemetery is the resting place of many famous men and women. To name a few, Hegel, Fichte, Marcuse, and, internationally less well known but very renowned in German speaking World, Schinkel and Brecht. A few years later, I shifted to an apartment nearby and would often visit the place.

Montage Berlin Sketches

Montage Berliner Skizzen

  • 1997
  • Sketches, ink and acrylic on plywood
  • 110 x 70cm

The End Art Vibe

The End Art Vibe

  • 2001
  • Acrylic and lacquer on canvas
  • 60 x 90cm
  • Private Collection

The result of a fleeting acquaintance with a mini End Art "movement" in Berlin, Kreuzberg, at the end of the last century. The folks seemed more interested in not conforming to anything anybody was saying about art rather than showing any allegiance toward the opinions of Hegel, Danto or most of the contemporary critics on concepts related to End Art. Most of their works tended toward grotesque, slimy, and greasy representations made of synthetic materials, mostly petroleum products, haptically anything but appealing.

Photomontage Africa

Photomontage Africa

  • 1997
  • Photographs and acrylic on hard board
  • 100 x 70cm

SFG-11

SFG-11

  • 1984
  • Textile, iron, wood and rubber on solid wood.
  • 80 x 100cm

Series: Structure, Form and Gestalt.

Galapagos

Galapagos
Where the sheep and the lion live together, like the frigate bird and the blue footed booby.

  • 2000
  • Cement, granite, sand and acrylic on hard board
  • 100 x 70cm

This specific version of Galapagos was inspired by my visit but equally significantly by the description of the islands by Herman Melville. I have written about the two distinct perspectives of Darwin and Melville regarding these incredible islands elsewhere.

The enchanted life of an artist amidst optical illusions. self Portrait

The enchanted life of an artist amidst optical illusions
Self Portrait

  • 1987
  • Oil and paper on canvas
  • 50 x 45cm

Opera 2

A 'Strictly' Abstract History of Art
Except in the precincts

  • 2001
  • Granite, sand and acrylic on canvas
  • 90 x 60cm
  • Private Collection

Autobiography of Ms. Not-Rose Wild

Autobiography of Ms. Not-Rose Wild
Or the lamentations of a wild flower

  • 1992
  • HP-Printed paper, ink-fixative, lacqeur, ink and acrylic on canvas.
  • 52 x 75 cm
  • Private Collection

Temnographical Foliage

Temnographical Foliage

  • 2000
  • Temnograph. Cut-out carton and oil on carton
  • 54 x 79cm.

Lonely Tree amidst Concrete

A Lonely Tree amidst Concrete

  • 2001
  • Granite, sand, acrylic, lacquer, metal alloys and ink on canvas
  • 60 x 90cm
>Photomontage Journal Africa

Photomontage Journal Africa

  • 1997
  • Photos, acrylic, granite and sand on hardboard
  • 100 x 80cm (framed)

Journal India. Collage of Sketches in Graphite, charcoal and ink

Journal India
Collage of Sketches in Graphite, charcoal and ink

  • 1997
  • Granite, paper sketches and latex on plywood
  • 110 x 90cm. (framed)
  • Private Collection

Wait. Meanderings of the old man river.

Wait!

Meanderings of the Old Man River

  • 2001
  • Acrylic and paper on canvas
  • 60 x 90cm

Daily News Montage

Daily News Montage

  • 1988
  • Newspapers and lacquer on glass
  • 28 x 120cm
A Mild Asymmetry

A Mild Asymmetry

  • 1999
  • Styrofoam, sand and acrylic on hardboard
  • 90 x 110cm