DAYENE OLIVEIRA

This last weekend (March 03) I made a tourist visit to San Francisco hoping to accomplish a photograph work about the Murals at Mission District.

Part of the work you can visualize here and belongs to the collection of Murals at Clarion Alley, the aisle between Valencia and Mission Street. Those and other photos will be used in a project I’m working on and I’ll talk about it later.

The experience of walking through the aisle surrounded by art is stunning and overwhelming and can take hours if you want appreciate details. Meanwhile you even will run into many other artists and photographers working on special projects that have the Mission District as background. In my case, a fashion Catalog…

Wellcome to San Francisco.

Galley Slideshow

Although this is not exactly a personal project, I’ll post it as the first one. That was a college work in drawing class. The Professor’s idea was that we could use pictures of ourselves that shows a side of each of us that nobody could catch in a daily basis. Being Brazilian, one of the less expected picture of me would be a ski outfit, up in the icy mountains.

The work is in drawing ink, Stonehenge paper, 22″ x 30″.

For the process I used tracing paper over the picture and projected the trace on the large paper. Once the outlines were done, I finished the shading.

As this project was just a leraning process, I have new ideas of images I want to draw with the same technique, like Golden Gate Bridge or another regular self portrait.

Few days ago I came across the work of the artist Gotye through the song “Somebody that I used to know”. As I realized later, this is his most mainstream song, although still brilliant!

While I was impressed with its music video, its colors and the singers interpretations (featuring Kimbra), by exploring his work deeper, I found out an expressive number of conceptuals and inovating videos. Well, maybe not that inovating, but the fusion of his songs, the eletronic pinch and the high art quality of the videos made it, in my opinion, a hella artist!

The video the most highlighted in my research was “Easy Way Out”:

The Gotye’s video list created by vimeo worth the click!

And here is the video where I was hooked up:

I’ve read about AAF Dallas’s work in a post on Brainstorm9′s blog and I truly related to the Big Daddy here:

One of my favorites stories is Coroline, by Neil Gaiman. As soon as I’ve watched the animation movie, I bought and read the book. I was impressed with all the literary and illustration quality of both works. This flexible and all figurative style that fuses aesthetics and concept so well.

It got even more obvious when I came across this video where the Author talks plainly about buttons which is such a detail in the story but that gives it all its magic, mystery and horror.

If we’re gonna start a dialog about inspiration, I have to go back four years ago (August 2008), when a friend introduced me to this video presenting the photographer François Marie Banier on a work for DVF (Diane von Furstemberg) with the model Natalia Vodianova.

Immediatelly after I watched this I wanted to take pictures and paint.

Of course I really tried it later and the one thing I remember is the voice of my mother: “There was such a good picture, what have you done???” =P

Here is one of my attempts to reproduce the achievement on a college’s project.

Photography by Daniel Magalhães.