Cajsa Lilliehook covers the best in virtual world screenshot art and digital painting
“Call me” by Paola Mills gives us a woman waiting for a phone call. She lives in a small enough town that the white pages can fit in one insert. I love the contrast between her very modern outfit and the vintage phone and white pages, though those phone numbers are from way way back before there were seven, let alone ten digits in a phone number.
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I love her fierce, shoulders-back posture as she walks along the parapet with the Eiffel Tower in this distance. Her posture is the antithesis of the Hunchback of Notre Dame. I probably would never connect the two, except it was the 25th anniversary of the film’s release on the 21st and I read this amazing story about how it’s “the most R-rated G you will see in your life.” The woman’s intense focus is far more reminiscent of someone on the balance beam, though that would be a risky endeavor at that height.
“A Place in the Clouds” gives us a modern day siren. How would a modern day Odysseus fare? I love the touch of humor in her wearing a swimsuit that reveals her tan lines from another swimsuit. A nice touch of realism. By the way, if you think sirens have to be mermaids, take it up with Herbert James Draper who painted Ulysses and the Sirens.
Paola Mills works in chiaroscuro with bold contrasts of light and shadow. Her pictures are almost all black and white and it seems her personal fascination is the play of light on skin, using bright white light to amplify and the contrasting deep shadows to outline. It’s a fascinating stream for those who appreciate all that light can do.
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