Drawings by Celia Calle, distorted art by jdyf333 and landscape paintings by Rob Ijbema.
Celia Calle’s drawings
I’m somewhat at a loss how to describe this next site. Here is what Celia says about it:
Dismiss any preconceived ideas of fine art as you step into the mindset of Celia Calle. Calle’s art aesthetic is strangely alluring and undeniably powerful. Her awesome images are ominous, commanding, sometimes warped, but always spiced with a generous injection of humor, in keeping with the artist’s effervescent personality.
Art by jdyf 333
Does a homeless person with a digital camera strike you as a bit contradictory?
While searching for interesting art sets on Flickr I came across this picture.
Unsafe harbor by jdyf333
Whether I go and look at the rest of the set isn’t determent by my liking of a picture but by my feeling that the set could be interesting. If this picture is the best of the set I’m probably not interested. But if it’s the worst it’s quite possible I’ll publish the set.
In this case I didn’t like the set at all and that would have been the end of it if it wasn’t for the fact that this artist publish 16,648 photos. That peaked my interest enough to have a look at his profile.
Apparently this woman(?) lived a large part of her life on the street. Always drawing and painting. It’s not clear to me how she saved all her work and if she still homeless. But she has published a large part of her work on Flickr.
I’ve looked at a portion and to be honest I must say that I actually don’t like it. Although she has some original work it’s most repetitive. Repeating drawing or pictures with slight variances.
But for anyone (never mind a homeless person) to upload 16,000 picture in the four years of Flickrs existence she really must love what she is doing.
So here’s to passion.
Painting wales diary
My country man Rob Ijbema lives in Wales and paints lovely pictures of the landscape.
See me draw
I am very sorry you didn’t like my art. (Please read my Profile, located here: http://flickr.com/photos/jdyf333/1196484977/)
I am male. I am a disabled senior citizen. Life is hell. Since you say my art is bad, I guess i have nothing left to live for. PEACE.
Hi jdyf333,
I didn’t say your art was bad. I said I didn’t like it.
In my view although it’s nice when I like something I mostly search for art that’s interesting. Not just an other pretty picture.
At this time I have about 50 sites and sets I want to review so I don’t have time for art that doesn’t interest me. I moved you up the queue because despite I don’t like your work I think you are interesting.
Thank you.
p.s.: i don’t have a digital camera.
p.p.s: Indeed it is a serious flaw, on flickr and other photo-networking sites, that people are encouraged to compliment but not criticize. Criticism is crucial because I tend to not be able to see my art objectively!! I sincerely thank you because, of all the many, many, many thousands of people who have viewed and commented on my art, you are the very first person to tell me (and the other viewers of your site) that you DO NOT LIKE my art. (Although I must say that indeed you must be busy, since you did not take the time to view my profile and learn my correct gender. And you falsely wrote that I have a digital camera, which I do not.)
p.p.p.s. I have uploaded MANY more than 16,000 images to my flickr site. I have more than 10,000 other images there that I have not yet shared with the public. The total number of uploads I have made to various photo sites exceeds 300,000 uploads. (I work using computers at public libraries. Berkeley is Ground Zero when it comes to computers. Like the cover story in FORTUNE magazine, “The Edison of the Internet” about Bill Joy and the computer lab at the University of California, Berkeley. Like when I was present as much LSD was delivered to a very very tiny cafe in Berkeley, The Buttercup. The manager of The Buttercup was Kary Mullis, who later invented the ultra-important polymerase chain reaction DNA test. Mullis says LSD was his inspiration. The waitress at The Buttercup was Suze Orman, who later became the best-selling financial author. She used to get irritated at the other hangers-on, Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, later famous for bringing the world Apple computers, because they were poor and tried to get free coffee. As Jobs famously said, when asked how apple got the jump on IBM, “Maybe they didn’t take enough LSD.”)