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As I'm sure you've already noticed.... WOW! We really hit the jackpot this issue. I think I'm going to stop being astounded soon at our good fortune. I really do. But, I'm not quite there yet, so you guys will just have to muddle on. Photo Art by Tantra Bensko
Tantra says, "I work most often photographically, these days, though i have been an artist of various media all my life, such as woodcuts, monoprints and oils. I often incorporate painting with acrylics, or put my photos into metalic sculptures, for example, most often using Photoshop, however, as the creative manipulation of my straight photography. I have made a lot of Polaroid transfers out of my images, and drawn on top of others, sometimes with blood. A lot of my work is not even really photographic at all, say, sometimes dropping into the palatte of ancient icons, and lifting works from old anatomical illustrations for collage. I have been finding myself going more into the photography straight up, though, of late, inspired so much by the people i take pictures of i sometimes want to just feature them as they are. I then turn the images into giclees, high quality, archival prints, and often burn them and the frames they are in with a blowtorch, my own unique method called scorchvision! I have a show traveling through Spain now, called Reality Burn!. My art comes from the fire of my heart, a kind of energy created from love and intensity of feeling, and lining up of the energies of the body Tantrically. My mind is surreal, dreamlike, and i love delicious humor, going about with people in ridiculous costumes, multi-media events where dancing is the best way to become one with the art. Painting for Tom by Bean
The Old Ice House by Betty Seek
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