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"Last Protestor" - Neil Howe

"The images Gassed and The Last Protestor are from a series I call BODYSCAPES which are created digitally through a process where images photographed by the artist, are digitally processed to create a simulated texture landscape that is richly varied in form and luminosities, in essence a virtual 3D matrix populated with simulated organic forms which in part are influenced by Bill Brandt’s enigmatic figures in the landscape and Man Ray’s experiments with light and form. These landscapes of the body in a landscape, while synthetic, deliberately remind the viewer of forms and textures from the natural world but at the same time confound with unexpected surrealism prompting questions like, where is the light coming from?  Is it a body part or a rock form? So BODYSCAPES are about landscapes in and of the body, this concerns both form and meaning encompassing social politics as well as politics of the body.   In other words I present both the microcosm of the human body as well as the macrocosm of humanity, its strengths, weaknesses, beauty and ugliness. My images can be confronting, I see them as a social surrealism. Sometimes deliberately wrapped in ambiguity, there are many layers of meaning that might be imbued by the viewer.  I invite you to use your imagination."