by Todd Billeci | Jan 29, 2020 | Research Practice, Studio Practice
From Ovid, The Metamorphosis Triton, Summoned from far down under, with his shoulders Barnacle-strewn, loomed up above the waters, The blue-green sea-god, whose resounding horn Is heard from shore to shore. Wet-bearded,Triton Set lip to that great shell,...
by Todd Billeci | Jan 27, 2020 | Research Practice, Studio Practice
Contextualizing photo work is problematic due to disagreements around the definition of art photography. Nevertheless, photography has become one of the great preoccupations of our age–particularly when one finds a teen attached to a smartphone. While the film...
by Todd Billeci | Jan 26, 2020 | Research Practice, Studio Practice
Darkness (excerpt) They slept on the abyss without a surge The waves were dead; the tides were in their grave, The moon, their mistress, had expired before; The winds were wither’d in the stagnant air, And the clouds perish’d; Darkness had no need...
by Todd Billeci | Jan 25, 2020 | Research Practice, Studio Practice
Observer 1: If there realy is a soul in there, god help it. Observer 2: If there is a soul in there, god has abandoned it. Observer 3: If there is no soul in there, god does not exist.
by Todd Billeci | Jan 24, 2020 | Research Practice
Artist Karl Blossfeldt worked during the German nature craze at the dawn of the 20th century–a period characterized by wonder at natural forms and their imitation in design. Blossfeldt’s output consists of two volumes of rather small, primitive,...
