An Irish artist currently based in Berlin, Enda O'Donoghue scours social media sites and blogs to find the perfect images for his oil on canvas paintings. What's the perfect image? To O'Donoghue, it's the throwaway digital shot that would otherwise be buried forever on hard drives, camera chips, mobile phones, or uploaded and then forgotten someplace online. Each painting starts with tracking down the owner of the digital photo and obtaining permission. Next, O'Donoghue meticulously breaks down each image and then reconstructs it, digital warts and all, on a large canvas. The end result is a series of random images connected only by O'Donoghue's process and artistic style.
Via Moco Loco.
God bless him for finding the owners of the images. I wish all artists would follow his example.
Posted by: bigeater | February 15, 2011 at 11:46 AM
Quite interesting and strange at the same time - why does he like the throwaway shots so much? There're so many good images.
Posted by: Susan Adex | February 23, 2011 at 03:48 AM