Goddesses

The “Goddesses” images are inspired by my interest in beautiful women, fashion, Bernice Abbott’s artistic interpretation of Harold Edgerton’s strobe lit motion photography of ball bearings, fruit & haute couture.

They are also my neo-Surrealist juxtaposition of alluring visual themes and feature my late gorgeous wife Virginia, Lady Gaga &  Lexi Belle among other beauties. The labels are letterforms based on my calligraphy using pen & brush converted into paths using Adobe Illustrator then output as Adobe Photoshop Layers with Layer Styles. They were assembled in Adobe Photoshop, which I’ve been a devoted user since I was introduced to the beta version at MacWorld Expo, January ’88 (see my bio in this site). 

My appreciation, as an art historian, of fashion being a integral art form, has been honed by 24 years as an Adjunct in the Advertising & Marketing Communication Department at Fashion Institute of Technology. My lifelong pursuit of photography is inspired by the seminal photography of Weegee, Diane Arbus, Cecil Beaton & Lee Miller.

These complex images were originally inspired by two wonderful recent museum shows, “Schiaparelli & Prada” at the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum Art, and “Shoe Obsession” at the Fashion Institute of Technology Museum. The Costume Institute exhibit was inspired by polymath Miguel Covarrubias’s caricature series “Impossible Interviews” in Vanity Fair magazine in the 1930’s (more on M.C. in my blog introing the Pre-Columbian section of this site), and the art of Surrealist artists, Dali, Magritte & Varo.

As an aesthete, I feel that people are the most beautiful, interesting creatures in nature, & lovely women are the most beautiful people.