Like most people in this country, Satan is my motor. So, I spent an evening figuring out exactly how much CO2 emission Julie and I have unique responsibility for. I added up our natural gas, electricity and gasoline used by our house and car. Planting another tree in the back yard won’t solve the problem. It takes roughly 7 acres of forest to match the rate with which our household is emitting CO2.
Kylliki Talp’s work is hanging at the Locco Ritoro gallery until February 24. Each image is formed from two paintings. One painting forms the base of the image, acrylic on canvas. Kylliki cuts the second painting into strips and overlays some of them onto the base canvas. This artifice creates a strong visual energy because of the perceptual interaction of the myriad edges and stripes. The constituent paintings are colorful by not visually active in their own right. The combination of the calm imagery portrayed by a visual active plane produces an interesting “salty and sweet” type of contrast.
The stripes form small windows from a base picture into an overlaid picture. I wondered whether the perceptual effect would be strengthened by letting these windows float around the visual field. So my wife and I spent an evening trying it out. We have oppositely colored negative space in the two images to emphasize the stripes. On the other hand, we have very low contrast between the two images in the content to create a ghostly overlay effect. The combination is also inspired by Binh Danh’s “chlorophyll prints”.
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Like most people in this country, Satan is my motor. So, I spent an evening figuring out exactly how much CO2 emission Julie and I have unique responsibility for. I added up our natural gas, electricity and gasoline used by our house and car. Planting another tree in the back yard won’t solve the problem. It takes roughly 7 acres of forest to match the rate with which our household is emitting CO2.