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The sense of foreboding tinged with playful fantasy, characteristic of many of my photographs, is mimicked in a suite of complex, layered compositions in ink, graphite, paint, and other materials sandwiched between sheets of mylar and plexiglass. Mimicking the layering processes I have used in my previous phototographs and digital video editing, I am able to play with opacity, depth of field and scale through the use of collage, tracing and rendering. Drawing and painting gives me an immediate sense of invention and enables a suspsension of disbelief.
These absurd predicaments strive to provoke conflicting emotions in the viewer. Scenes that would normally appear threatening or grotesque, inspire empathy as well as fear, and ultimately are revealed to be more complex than was first assumed.
-Anthony Goicolea
Disassembly
Balseros
Constellation
Cat's Cradle
Petroleum Dream
Red Sky
Bloodstone