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48073
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- Website
- http://www.48073.com
- Member type
- Artist, Other
- If you're an artist, what kind of art do you make?
- Conceptual, Digital, Drawing, Event, Film, Installation, Painting, Performance, Photography, Printmaking, Sculpture, Video
- I am...
- 48073.
The number was born online, december 2002.
It is the number I find hardest to remember.
- About my artwork
- Way back in 2000 I started an online art project, communicating to the world by creating and showing online one new painting each day, for the rest of my life. Soon after the start I was hacked, unable to continue my online presence...
Two years later I was reborn under another name. As an artist I now live as brand 48073™ in RL, on my computer and on the web.
The number was born on the web, december 2002. It is the number I find hardest to remember.
I started making solid paintings in 1990. I saw and cut them into pieces, rearranging them and re-assemble them into new images. Pictures taken from these paintings are then re-combined and transformed using a computer.
From that moment on the painting lives a virtual life, the 'original' becomes redundant to the point that it does not even matter if the original still exists.
The painting lives as part of the digital world, somehow becoming more “real” this way, like I feel more “real” being a number.
About Panting
I start from a zero mentally, intuitive, without a preconceived plan. I want the thing to make itself, all by its self. The fact is is that the image comes to life in an incidental, casual way. Working from a seemingly careless attitude is a way to quiet down the desire, the Ego. Before I act I wait, until the will flows back again. I keep repeating this, I continue to block the urge to act. Until, unnoticed, something has happened. Suddenly I find myself at work. As soon as i fully realize this moment i stop, wait, let the whole process start all over again.
I try to defeat the painting in all possible ways, destroying it, sawing it apart, cutting it with a knife or scissors. The debris is then nailed, glued, sewn together, transformed into new images. This whole thing is organic, including the format, which can grow or shrink during the process.
I keep working on a painting until I can no longer judge it. Until I have lost grip on the result. Until it no longer needs me and starts living its own life in the world.
I do not want to create beauty. I want the image pushed to the other side, over the edge, until it falls together in a fragile harmony, hanging between thin threads, like a wounded butterfly caught in the web of the conscious.
I do not want to create an alternative reality. This is simply how I see the world as it really is.
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Artworks
48073 - misc.
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48073 choosed to be 48073
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48073 flowers / spareribs
Added 22 May 2008 at 3:06am
48073 nice and fat ©1991
Added 17 May 2008 at 1:52am 1 Comment
48073 dish blog 195days, 195photo's c2008by48073
Added 25 April 2008 at 10:45pm 2 Comments
48073 twirl
Added 7 April 2008 at 2:19am
48073 MATCHBOX
Added 4 March 2008 at 11:23pm 1 Comment
48073 paint new
Added 16 February 2008 at 3:19am
48073 meditation center
Added 16 February 2008 at 3:10am
48073 likes0801
Added 16 February 2008 at 3:00am
48073 digital paintings
Added 14 February 2008 at 1:55am
48073's Videos
48073's Blog
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Posted on 12th December 2008 at 2:00am —
48073 is human#071321
Posted on 10th November 2008 at 1:00am —
"twirl" - in a slidecom context. 100 abstract paintings. indian ink/acrylic on a diversity of unprepared cotton/canvas.
Posted on 14th April 2008 at 12:30am — 1 Comment
dish blog; 195 days, 195 photo's.
Posted on 11th March 2008 at 12:00pm —
48073 = 2130
Posted on 14th February 2008 at 11:30pm — 1 Comment
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