Mindscape In Cyberspace

Venereal Kittens is a collective, conceptualized and edited by artist-poet Matina L. Stamatakis and dedicated to archiving and preserving innovative works by writers and artists of the 21st century, with a strong preference for experimental, avant-garde,post modern poetry and art. They say very clearly that they are not interested in mainstream writing or art.

They have already featured great artists and writers like, Alexander Jorgensen, Kane X. Faucher, Theoni Tambaki, ek rzepka, Carmen Racovitza, Ted Warnell, John Moore Williams, Angela Genusa, Javier Kronauer, Marco Giovenale, Raymond Farr, Anna Christina, Mauricette Beaussart, Drew Kunz, Nico Vassilakis, Linh Dinh, Robert Chrysler, Catherine M. Bennett, Michelle Detorie, Jukka-Pekka Kervinen, Mark Lamoureux, Bruna Mori, Lina Ramona Vitkauskas, Philip Jenks, Diana Magallon, Jeff Crouch, etc.

Recently they have added my digital paintings and visual poetry to their archive. It feels really nice to be featured on a journal with all those great artists who are shaping the art and literature of 21^st century.

Find the thumbnails of my paintings and vispos that are featured on Venereal Kittens, below:

Entangled

… and Birds and Birds

Comics

Park Street Junction

Watching TV - Emotinally Red

Take a look at my works on Venereal Kittens at following locations:
http://venerealkittens.blogspot.com/2008/10/samit-roy.html
http://venerealkittens.blogspot.com/2008/02/samit-roy-continued.html

Flickr is one of the most popular on-line platform to showcase and share your images with millions of users from various corners of the world. Though, primarily Flickr is meant for sharing Photographs (and now video, too), however many artists, painters, calligraphists, print makers, and designers share their artworks, illustrations, paintings and other non-photographic images on Flickr. If you visit specific groups dedicated to non-photographic visual art, like paintings, graphics, digital art, illustrations, you will find thousands of artists showcasing their artworks and providing an amazing spectrum of visual culture, across the globe.

Here is a list of 20 Flickr groups dedicated mainly to non-photographic art, which I find very interesting:

1. Art and Artist »
2. Art is Art »
3. Art Directory »
4. Art District »
5. Art - Drawing and Painting »
6. Art Now »
7. Art Vision »
8. Artists Without Borders »
9. contemporary fine A R T S + Culture »
10. Digital Art »
11. Global Urban Art »
12. Graphic Design »
13. Illustration »
14. Illstration Now »
15. Obsessive Drawing »
16. Painting »
17. Paintings from you… THE ARTIST »
18. Sketches »
19. Urban Artist Collective »
20. Your Art - Not Photography »

Landscape in the Mist
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I have posted my latest artwork on my Digital Art Blogalleria! I named it “Landscape in the Mist: Remembering Angelopoulos”. Though Theo Angelopoulos is one of my favorite European directors, I have never thought about him when I started working on this piece. I just wanted to create a misty landscape with a blue valley and an old, sad, blossoming tree. As I finished the drawing and started thinking about an appropriate title for the same, the first phrase came to mind is ‘Landscape in the Mist’ and immediately I started associating this image with the colors and mood and visuals of the landscapes depicted in Theo’s works, though, probably it does not reflect any similarities with any physical frames of Theo. This work was never inspired by Theo’s movies, but has been associated with them, later. Kind of reverse mechanism, one can say!

The artwork can be seen here »

I cannot restrict myself from quoting a comment from one of the audience of this image, here! Actually, I felt, his comment is also contributing a lot to create the image! I believe, each viewer constructs his own image, using the clues that I have initiated and each of there newly constructed images are unique and different from the main or initiating image created by me. The credit of those new constructions goes to the viewer, who is viewing the image. Whenever someone i looking at my image, I strongly feel that this guy is not looking at the image created by me, but actually creating a new image using mine and looking at the new one. Here is the comment (partly):

“I did not watch the movie, nor do I know much of the director Angelopoulos’ style of work …

… The colour combination and liquid shapes gives me a simile of underwater life (mystic?). The folds may represent faces as well as petals or even unknown hidden stories yet to be discovered. Just as the kids did in “Landscape in the Mist”. 

The entire comment can be read here »

Well, I have never thought about this “underwater life”! But, after reading this comment, I realized that, yes, it does look like an underwater scene, the folds do represent faces as well as petals! These are the constructions of the viewer! I had only thought about a blue valley and an old sad blossoming tree!