It's strange: in the old world, the original work of art was revered above any facsimiles or reproductions. In the post-modern world of today, there is no longer any such thing as reality, and the simulacra has more definition than the original.
"I prefer your lips red - not what the good Lord made - but what he intended." - r.waters
Insofar as this Baudrillardian ethic goes towards my own watercolors, I can easily see the superiority of the scanned, online pixelized images over the trapped behind refractive flatness of the originals.
Yes - there is a trade-off. A particular aspect of the originals that does not carry across that well in the digitally scanned realm, is the source limitation of the watercolor paints having dried, themselves. These digitally scanned renditions of the original watercolors mostly share another element in common: they were scanned promptly after the original's completion. Therefore - some of the original, fading freshness was captured for posterity, here.
*(I would love to run an experiment, by scanning these old originals again, in the future, and compare the results to see if there is any visibly pronounced contrast between their "freshness" in the past and their having faded more in the future.
In the meantime, scroll through all the old posts here and enjoy the facsimiles. After all, they are the image that is mostly viewed, and in time, will be all that remain of the originals, themselves having flaked off their old dried up watercolors, or been outright lost and destroyed across the unpredictable landscape of circumstance.
The only place one may optimally see my watercolors is here online for free. Enjoy.
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It's strange: in the old world, the original work of art was revered above any facsimiles or reproductions. In the post-modern world of today, there is no longer any such thing as reality, and the simulacra has more definition than the original.
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Insofar as this Baudrillardian ethic goes towards my own watercolors, I can easily see the superiority of the scanned, online pixelized images over the trapped behind refractive flatness of the originals.
Yes - there is a trade-off. A particular aspect of the originals that does not carry across that well in the digitally scanned realm, is the source limitation of the watercolor paints having dried, themselves. These digitally scanned renditions of the original watercolors mostly share another element in common: they were scanned promptly after the original's completion. Therefore - some of the original, fading freshness was captured for posterity, here.
*(I would love to run an experiment, by scanning these old originals again, in the future, and compare the results to see if there is any visibly pronounced contrast between their "freshness" in the past and their having faded more in the future.
In the meantime, scroll through all the old posts here and enjoy the facsimiles. After all, they are the image that is mostly viewed, and in time, will be all that remain of the originals, themselves having flaked off their old dried up watercolors, or been outright lost and destroyed across the unpredictable landscape of circumstance.
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