Video: Circus horses, elephants and zebras in a foggy arena: photographs by Rob Tarbell, completed with smoke
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
The author of circus-themed photographs Rob Tarbell is himself in some way a trainer. But, unlike people who tame wild animals, Rob Tarbell deals with an even more wayward ward - smoke. The latter does not happen without fire, which is very difficult to subdue. This is why flammable photographs are created in a completely isolated room. It's bad to joke with fire, but a serious attitude to this element promises artistic discoveries.
Circus horses, elephants and zebras in the smoke, slightly blurred outlines of artists who have spent their whole lives under the dome of the circus … In fact, the basis of each photograph by Rob Tarbell is a collage. So, a rider who deftly balances on the back of a horse is not a circus artist, but the author's wife, who practices yoga. But in the fog and in the smoke you cannot distinguish fiction from truth. By the way, where does the smoke come from?
Rob Tarbell pins photo collages to the ceiling of a specially equipped room and starts burning everything from old pictures to plastic cards. The work requires precision and accuracy: one wrong move - and the fumigation process has to start all over again. The author of the smoky photo art began to immerse collages in fog about 4 years ago, and now he has become the lord of the rings of smoke.
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