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It should come as no surprise that the current situation in the world is flowing into art. And this is the beginning, because the art of the image is the first where historical and environmental circumstances are manifested. Then there will be literature, music, dance, etc.
Some of the selected images can produce oppression, even anguish (which is not my intention), so I have chosen to mix them with others, made at the same stage, whose vision is more optimistic: it is the visualization of the hugs suspended for so long ... the vision of a future that does not necessarily have to be dark.
I hope you enjoy. Take care of yourself, please

Start With Love by yuumei


pensare/fiatare {11} by DEWFRAME

Breathe so loudly by ARIANA1985

Scent May Pink {6a} by DEWFRAME
Selfportrait quarantine by Ddenisee

Cosplay Rem by riribonni [ Fanart ] by riribonni

Consumption by NataliaDrepina



These Days 2 by MuseInBlack

A new beginning II by Mrs-White
Air Oddity by Vanimelir
Free download collection of 11 photos with my albu by MWeiss-Art



pensare/fiatare {9} by DEWFRAME
Quarantine by Ddenisee
The Changing World by Mars-Hill

Dystopia by mimikascraftroom

Dark Times by burningmonk















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Christmas Art

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To warm the soul :heart: :heart: :heart:












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I am 10 years old in Deviant Art. I believe that the best way to celebrate it is to do the best I can do: write a book.

The theme of the book is Cosplay. But it is not a photo book, but an academic one, in which, regardless of addressing this artistic phenomenon from all angles, exposing the good and the bad, but, above all, placing it in a social historical context , the conclusion will be that cosplay is an art. And an art as worthy of respect as acting, dance, music, although apparently it does not require a university education. I am of the idea that the best cosplayers are the ones who know Japanese culture best ... although my journey is still long, and a question may arise that creates a "crater" ... and then, I am forced to retrace the path and reach a different conclusion.

There are many doubts and concerns that I intend to raise in this book. There are things that fascinate me, others that concern me, and that is the profile of the artists I am looking for: that they bewitch me with their art ... or that they leave me extremely restless. I am not only a practitioner of this art, an amateur (I doubt to reach professionalism with the disease that afflicts me, of which I have already spoken, fibromyalgia); I am also a mother, and it was precisely to please my oldest daughter that I started in this art, exactly 10 years ago.

I opened this Deviant Art page to post our cosplay photos. He did not intend, nor the idea of ​​making art (possibly "deviant art"), only of setting up a kind of family gallery. But they were not photos of conventions, but of the presentations of my books, which in summary address the adventures of two young girls who belong to a family of mangakas, and are used as characters, and one of them becomes a recognized artist in this item I imposed that the presentations would be with cosplays, that is, that anime characters commented on the books, and we had great success despite the fact that in Mexico the presentations of books are boring and solemn.

Caterina and Claudius superstars by AkumaHarmony

As I became familiar with the practice of cosplay (for which we practiced in conventions, the best thermometer to know if the cosplay we would present was charismatic enough), I wanted more to get into the psychological of those who, like me, were pleased to "become others" and reached extremes of sacrifice to achieve the closest to perfection. Already then I considered writing a book about the art of cosplay that would make people see themselves without imagination, which awards oddities to this art, which is much, much more, than girls with pink hair and boys with fox ears .

I have tried unsuccessfully to establish contact with Deviant Art artists who have ignored my messages; others have already agreed to participate. All they have to do is answer a questionnaire. But ... be careful! It's not just any questionnaire; They are not cloned questions for all participants. Each will receive questions formulated strictly for them. Although all a passion in common, they are completely different individuals. There are those who practice their art amid privileges and comforts; others do it by making huge sacrifices of money and time. Among the latter, many have to deal with the disagreement of their parents, or give priority to their studies (which is not bad) .... there are those who have overcome complex and traumas through this art. Although 70% of cosplay artists are young people between 16 and 38 years old (those who have agreed to participate in my book, I mean), there are 40, 50, 60. The oldest is 78 years old.

Through this diary, I will allow myself to make three calls. I will infinitely thank anyone who answers:


1) I URGENTLY need professional cosplay artists from the United States and England. I have assembled a very heterogeneous group, which includes cosplayers from unimaginable countries. I only have amateur cosplayers from the United States, and from England I have absolutely no one. I want to be honest: I have tried to communicate with at least five renowned US cosplayers, but they IGNORE my messages. In England the situarion is similar. I will make a last call through this journal, begging the sky to report.


2) I will also call some cosplayers that I would love to include in my book and they have not answered my messages. I will also call some cosplayers that I would love to include in my book and have not answered my messages. And if anyone knows them, or is close to them, I will be infinitely grateful if you tell them that their presence is very important in my book, or tell me where to locate them. If you ignore me again, I will assume that you are not interested in participating in the project:


:iconmegancoffey::icona4th::iconcamui-tooru::icondaixsora::iconkaiten-san::iconkureo110: :iconzoevolf::icondasgemini::iconleonchirocosplayart:


3) I want to include interviews with photographers. I have very few. I also call for some of them.
:icondenpun-chan::iconmichellemonique:


This call is open to those who wish to participate, but it must be taken into account that not everyone who approaches will be interviewed. They can be absolutely certain, however, that their work will be mentioned.
I appreciate your attention, your help, your direct or indirect collaboration for my book and your response to my call.




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Here I go again

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I once reflected in this same space about abandoned galleries and the conversion of some artists to pornography (not to mention names). Another very commented phenomenon, not by me, but in other Journals, is the disappearance of accounts, which I suppose has to do with a lack of motivation or, in the worst case, the insistence of some users for disturbing the models that perform erotic art (which distinguishes perfectly from porn) or sweeten girls who do not do eroticism or porn to "show the tits or the ass."
Shortly before my birthday, which was last September 22, I was about to join the group of the disappointed who leave their galleries. In addition to my disappointment to perceive DA as a site that had lost its original course, or rather, to certain DA users eager to see things for which DA was not created in the beginning, there is my disease that does not allow me to move Or move with ease as before. In 2014, after many assumptions, I was diagnosed with fibromyalgia. In 2015 I did cosplay for the last time, and it was for a literary event. Tiredness and pain prevented me from doing the photoshoot of Shirai Kuroko (from To Aru Kagaku No Railgun); The costumes of Alice (Madness returns), Elizabeth (Bioshock Infinite, burial at sea) and Olivier Amstrong (Fullmetal alchemist) were left unused.
I assumed that I would never use them, but at the same time I refused to sell or lend them. I did not want to lose hope of improvement (because complete relief is impossible: it is an incurable disease). I tried to replace the practice of cosplay with photography, and I earned a Daily Deviation, which made me see that I was not as bad a photographer as I imagined. But even hauling the camera became tired. The last thing I did in that sense was the photos of the ROMA street as a tribute to the Alfonso Cuarón movie. My daughter, with whom I worked side by side in the cosplays and also in my manga novels (she is my illustrator) installed a latest generation photoshoop on my laptop to restore old photos of poor quality and repaint some defective ones, and, Along with my writing, I found one more motivation to lift my spirits. After this, my daughter, who is an extraordinary mangaka, user of DA (I omit her name because she does not want to be disturbed) had another idea: "Mom, you don't have to leave the cosplay, what do you think if we make characters from Touhou Project for Christmas and you do Patchouli Knowledge? Can you do it lying down, surrounded by your books! " Well, this, the small awards, the comments of other cosplay practitioners and readers of my manga novels have lifted my spirits. I am taking a very strong medication that has taken my pain away, in exchange for side effects somewhat more bearable than feeling knives embedded everywhere, I am even preparing an academic book on cosplay, where I take the "play" very seriously. Given all this panorama, on my birthday I chose to stay at Deviant Art, make my friends and watchers participate in my new projects and invite them to my new pages ... but above all to support me on the page I opened with the intention to publicize my project entitled "Becoming another: the artistic, historical and political reality of cosplay" and have the sponsorship of those who love art and, especially, the art of cosplay. Thank you very much for reading me:
ko-fi.com/baskiatsuika
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This is an article of my authorship, published in a Mexican art magazine. I apologize because I will reproduce it directly from Spanish. Doing it in English would take too much space. For those who can understand it or pass it through a translator, I hope you enjoy it a lot.


ABOUT

Special thanks to:





Things you'd expect to be

Having effect on me

Pass undetectedly

But everyone knows what has got me

Sweetest perfection

Depeche Mode

 

Tuberías oxidadas. Ganchos para colgar la ropa. Tiendas abandonadas que se aferran a su nombre, tan poéticos algunos como L’ Aire d’ Eden. Pero muy especialmente los diseños involuntarios del proceso de oxidación o putrefacción sobre acero o madera. Nunca más volví a ver igual las cosas aparentemente simples –incluso desvencijadas- luego de atestiguar en qué podía transformarlas Ulrich Bednarz, geólogo alemán radicado en Francia y autor de cuatro libros de fotografía firmados con su nombre real. Sus fotos las firma con un pseudónimo más complicado que su nombre real: EintoeRn. En alguna entrevista declara estar influenciado por pintores expresionistas alemanes como August Macke u Otto Müller; artistas contemporáneos como Warhol, Stella  o Rothko, y por los llamados “spaguetti westerns”. Burdos artilugios… ¿quién se fija en un salvavidas si no es cuando la garra invisible de un calambre tira de tu pantorrilla en lo más profundo de una alberca? La lección implícita en las imágenes de EintoeRn es que la maravilla te aguarda donde menos lo imaginas: el faro roto de un viejo automóvil puede gestar una galaxia en formación. Las cosas con las que EintoeRn logra imágenes que abarcan un rango de belleza que va desde lo tierno hasta lo sublime, sin lindar lo perturbador y mucho menos lo escatológico (algo común en artistas de esta corriente); óxido, moho, carcoma, trastos descascarillados, barcos espectrales oscilando entre aguas turbias. Ocasionalmente expone bosques, carreteras, paisajes urbanos y rurales, alterando su morigerada perfección de postal con algún detalle que enriquece su narrativa: su característico sombrero blanco (que asoma en varias de las tomas) abandonado sobre el césped, a varios metros de una casa campirana, o las puntas de unas botas que definitivamente no pertenecen al fotógrafo. En muchas aparece la sombra de una mujer. No sinuosa, pasiva ni sensual, sino protegida contra el rigor del invierno y una cámara en la mano. Mujer y cámara, casi siempre en lontananza, perspectiva desde la que EintoeRn prefiere fotografiar árboles. Álter ego del fotógrafo más que musa, o en todo caso, musa con libre albedrío que jamás posa deliberadamente.  Reclinada contra un muro de espejos, dos mujeres idénticas, chamarra blanca y pelo negro, una a espaldas de la otra, revisando su cámara con aire distraído. El nombre de la mujer que está en prácticamente todas las fotos de EintoeRn, incluso en ausencia, es Lúcia P., originaria de Portugal, en cuyos escenarios transcurre gran parte de la fotografía paisajística de su comparsa. La sombra pequeña, fuelle, conmovedora de las fotografías de EintoeRn, ella misma extraordinaria fotógrafa, murió de cáncer el 9 de noviembre de 2017. Lúcia trabajó también en fotografías de calle con un prestigiado fotógrafo portugués, José Calheiros, con quien se hizo un autorretrato doble, uno al lado del otro, las piernas muy separadas, frente a un aparador con su respectiva cámara enfocada hacia un cristal opaco. Existe una gran influencia de EintoeRn en el trabajo de la misteriosa Lúcia (1956), y es posible que también a la inversa. Durante unos cinco años colaboraron de manera constante y entusiasta, fusionando imágenes capturadas por uno y otra  capturadas en cámaras análogas, a través de una técnica especial de revelado. No obstante la semejanza de algunos de sus trabajos con los de EintoeRn, Lúcia tiene una personalidad definida como fotógrafa que tiende más hacia el minimalismo (el recorrido por las venas de una hoja, la vulnerabilidad de una verdura recién extraída de la tierra, la esquina pútrida de un pétalo degenerado). También parece mucho más afecta a retratar personas que su compañero, aunque sus retratos de calle, que parecen muy anteriores a su etapa más experimental, poseen una característica semejante a los paisajes rurales de EintoeRn: sus inesperados encuadres. En medio de una multitud puede sobresalir una mano con uñas pintadas de un color particularmente llamativo; un joven realizando malabares con unas enormes pompas de jabón y el rostro de un hombre mayor hablando por celular, perfectamente enmarcado por una burbuja. Más que el gesto, Lúcia capta el impulso. Un hombre calvo aparece en varias fotografías, formando una silueta alargada. Contraparte de la sombra de Lúcia: EintoeRn.




            En medio de ese juego de sombras y hombres calvos, existe un autorretrato de EintoeRn y Lúcia. Una técnica similar a la de Lúcia con Calheiros pero de carácter más emotivo que estético. Es ella quien domina la escena al sostener la cámara contra lo que parece el aparador vacío de una tienda, cubierta hasta la cabeza y una bufanda colorida. Por sobre su hombro derecho asoma un hombre con la cabeza cubierta por un gorro –juraría que es calvo- y unas gafas cuadradas. Del lado izquierdo de la fotógrafa, como un cuarto brazo que se fusiona con el cuerpo de ella hasta cobrar la forma de una recatada Vishnu, asoma el brazo de su compañero, con una cámara fuertemente afianzada. Pese a su afán por opacarse –en sentido estético y no psicológico-, la fotógrafa se refleja vibrante y juguetona, pese a su sonrisa prácticamente invisible.  EintoeRn ha expresado su profundo dolor por lo que, me atrevería a afirmar, era la anunciada muerte de su alter ego/musa a través de imágenes, no solo propias, también ajenas. En la última fotografía de Lúcia, captada por EintoeRn se le ve nítidamente proyectada contra lo que parece ser un mar calmo, flanqueada por un par de faroles y aves sobrevolando su cabeza, con la cámara apuntando hacia el mismo punto donde otro capta su imagen apenas distorsionada: no cabe duda que se trata de una mujer pequeña, de cabello negro. El título de la foto: “muito obrigado por tudo…e muito, muito más”.



 
  

            La presencia de Lúcia se deja sentir cada día, cuando EintoeRn publica en su galería online una nueva foto que, si nos atenemos a la leyenda que acompaña la imagen, forma parte de su trabajo en colaboración con ella, y su saludo por las mañanas sigue siendo “hello, dear”.

Lucia Art










Ulrich Art




 



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