this is a private blog for my design students and assorted other survivors. Tro blemakers all
this is a private blog for my design students and assorted other survivors. Tro blemakers all.
this is a private blog for my design students and assorted other survivors. Tro blemakers all.
this is a private blog for my design students and assorted other survivors. Tro blemakers all.

Friday, September 08, 2006

Walmor Correa - Brazilian artist/illustrator
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" Back to my studio I started rethinking my first impressions on nature, evolution and
science and applied these very questions on a new series of works called Catalogações/
Coleções in which I created little paintings of imaginary insects with new functions. I
used real-life pins stuck into the images similar to old insect collectors. The species were displayed in entomological cabinets, according to the tradition of natural history museums.

After this project I looked back on my early constant visits to the school laboratories, those temples of silence and death. Feeding on these memories I created the Cartesian Dioramas, big-sized pictures made of acrylic and graphite on canvas with several animals surrounded by an ethereal environment where they stand individually, each one having its own highlight, which is related to old natural museum dioramas where animals are stuffed and displayed as a sample of nature. Without actually interfering in nature, I let the viewer’s imagination follow its own course. I provide clues about my creative process through texts with individual names I make up, along with some of the features which I consider necessary so as to confer an identity on these impossible beings I have brought to life."


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