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Annel Livingston - Fragments G1C 182
Did you ever thought that everything you see is just an illusion or
not the reality? Don't you question about your existence or the thing
you see may be real? I guess that everybody had that question and
some questioned it more than others. Some believe that the world is
made of numbers and made of particles. Some believe that all is made
of organic, or geometric forms, but than in nano forms. Our eyes and
brain work the same, but the experiences which each of us have lived
are different and that makes our ideas, thoughts, critical
conclusions different. That's what makes us human, but that's not the
point right here. I wanted to start with a question to leads you to
the spheres of optical illusion. The colours we see are
sometimes or maybe all the time (who knows) slightly different than
what we except to see. I'll start by giving you a few examples of optical illusions, this will eventually bring me to Annel Livingston.
When you look at this image, how many colors do you see? For me for
instance, I see 3 colors. For some it's 4 colors. Well it may sound
surprisingly shocking for some, but there's only two colors. Green
and red. Some see red, green and fuchia (close to pink). To see the
two colors just look closer at the image and you'll see that the
fuchia color becomes red. It gives an eerie look at it, doesn't it?
Our eyes are getting tricked or mostly our brain. So what makes you
think that a rose is red colored? Maybe it's fuchia or pink. The next
one is similar like this one, but slightly different.
This right here gave me the shivers. I'll ask again, how many colors
do you see? Mostly will say 3 or 2. That will be white, light gray
and darker gray. There's only one color, just put your finger on the
brighter side of image and you will see that the darker gray becomes
the same color as the lighter gray. Crazy isn't it, well for me at
least. I always knew these kind of optical illusion, but it still
surprises me how my brain or eyes trick me.
My
second subject isn't the same as these optical illusions, it isn't
optical illusion at all but (maybe it is) it gave me that feeling, it made me think it is a bit.
Anelle Livington born in Houston Texas. She studied in different art schools. Her work is abstract art, but even
though it's abstract, you can clearly see that she thought about
composition and colors. In her Fragments
Series
she uses geometric compositions, breaks the picture in many
pieces and changes that in color, temperature, value or intensity.
These
changes can be seen as the eye moves from top to bottom, bottom to
top, or from side to side. Accordingly to Anelle Livington it is a
mode of perception, a multidimensional language, which because of its
simplicity has immediacy and spontaneity that is distinct. Therefore
she replies that it is a foundation for an art of limitless
associative possibilities. She simultaneously wants to explore the
mysterious spaces between inside and outside, color field and image,
figuration and abstraction.
The
optical illusion on the other hand is clearly stamped on her
Fragments
Series, because
through that use of simultaneous contrast, she changes the visual
perception accordingly. That by using two colors, painted side by
side and that interact with one another. This affects the viewer’s
sense of the color. Though the shapes are not altered, patterns
appear, disappear, and change in their appearance, accordingly to
Anelle Livington.
Fragments
G&C 180
These works could be seen as pages of a diary or
personal journal. Like poetry, one idea dissolves into another and the series of work becomes a sequence of new images.
Fragments G&C 141
Fragments G&C 165
Livingston
next work is dedicated to the caption of Anne Truitt: “A
concept of any importance seems to carry with it the responsibility
of inventing methods for its actualization, and the energy to do
so.”.
Livington wanted to express the idea behind memory and thought by
analyzing it as fragments. Accordingly to Livington “The
images are not meant to dictate what the viewer should think, but
allows the viewer a place to think. ...[etc.]The collages once
created are an inspiration for paintings of limitless possibilities,
which allows for the simultaneous exploration, of the mysterious
spaces of inside and outside, figuration and abstraction, past and
present, two and three-dimensional space. [etc.].”
Fragments Four #108
Fragments Nine #114
Livington
didn't only worked with geometric forms, but exchanged her geometric
forms into organic forms which made it more interesting. “It
is the idea that dictates the image.”
- Annell Livingston
Zen Drawing
Bird Nest Drawing 1-'13
Bird's Nest
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