art blog

This 5-minute clip is what I like to call “made for the medium”. The captions are in Spanish, but I am not convinced it’s origin is Spain. Though Almodovar’s aesthetic often looks Japanese, this looks a little too Japanese, if you know what I mean. I suspect Mozilla developer Gomita is behind it. The suggested title is “Cerebro de Gomita”, which in my book can mean either Brain of Gomita-san or Rubber brain. The benefit of the doubt can be a miraculous thing.

I really like Daniel Merriam. I first became acquainted with his work when he exhibited at a local gallery here in San Francisco about 3 years ago. I’d never really been a fan of so-called “fantasy art” (fairies and elves and whatnot), but in Merriam’s work there is a tension and energy you just don’t see in the fantasy genre. It owes, I think, to the interplay between light and dark forces — good and evil, if you will. Some of his pieces are evocative of the gargoyles and grotesques of Bosch.

Others are as airy as Norman Rockwell meets Seurat.

The most interesting pieces are the ones where both those elements are evident, but held in balance.