Titan, 2026. Oil painting on canvas.
Did this study on Leonard Bernstein’s movements during Mahler’s No. 1 where I watched him conduct and tried to follow his right hand with my own right hand holding the brush.
A Palestinian girl holding a flower gazes at her brother’s grave in the Sheikh Radwan cemetery in Gaza City on the first day of Eid Al-Adha.
Photo taken by Mohammad Saber, 7th of April, 1998.
"you'd be surprised by how commonplace ai is in corporate work" no i wouldn't. there's been enough novels, artworks, films and songs depicting corporate work without any kind of fondness or respect for over a century. understandingly so.
we can manifest and pray for better lives all we want, but nothing will ever truly happen when our own government blocks us from receiving even our most basic HUMAN needs.
this is the best series (and one of his most referenced) that richard avedon ever did & was hand pieced together from several shots of audrey, if you even care.
supposedly the medicis became patrons of the arts because of catholic guilt; they were a banking family and made most of their money through interest. it's not like billionaires today "fund the arts" to clear their conscience. art patronage is foolproof!