9 Different Dreams Of Coldenss And Humidity (Digital Work Over Photographs From my Butoh Vlog. 2012)

9 Different Dreams Of Coldenss And Humidity (Gustavo Thomas © 2012)

Those who follow my Blog know very well that my Butoh Vlog has become an unique source of visual art exploration, in video and in digital art and photography as well. Today I want to show to you a series of manipulated still photographies from one video of one of my Butoh trainings. These photographies acquired their own life when I was digitally working with them, and now are totally separated from the first impulse that provoked the movement in my training that day; you can imagine that is something I really love. They are now a series of 9 pieces that I've named: "9 Different Dreams Of Coldenss And Humidity".

Even you have here a slideshow with the 9 photographs, you can still going to the link in flickr and watching them separately, if you want: http://www.flickr.com/photos/gustavothomastheatre/sets/72157632111679604/

Slideshow of "9 Different Dreams Of Coldenss And Humidity"

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L'esprit de la danse à Montréal / The Spirit of the Dance in Montreal (Digital Work Over Photography By Gustavo Thomas. 2012)

L'esprit de la danse à Montréal / The Spirit of the Dance in Montreal

(Digital Work Over Photography. By Gustavo Thomas © 2012. All Rights Reserved)

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Lustful Girl (Digital Work Over Photography. By Gustavo Thomas. 2012)

Lustful Girl

(Digital Work Over Photography. By Gustavo Thomas © 2012. All Rights Reserved)

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"Tamalera" (Digital Drawing and Painting. By Gustavo Thomas. 2012)

"Tamalera"

(Digital Drawing and Painting. By Gustavo Thomas © 2012. All Rights Reserved)

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The Rose (From my Butoh vlog) (Digital Work Over Photograph. By Gustavo Thomas. 2012)

The Rose (From my Butoh vlog)

(Digital Art Over Photograph. By Gustavo Thomas © 2012. All Rights Reserved)

Summer has left me a difficult path in my own work and I haven't had time to edit the videos from my Butoh vlog (and therefore showing them off), but the digital art that surges from them has not stopped.

The flower is an object-subject Kazuo Ohno used to work as part of their own training and as part of his workshops in Yokohama, and his son, Yoshito Ohno, continues to do the same in his own workshops. 

This flower I'm showing here (an artificial rose) was given to me by Yoshito Ohno during a Butoh master class he gave in Montreal dance school last October 2011; the flower is now part of my daily training ... and part of my own art.

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Bearded Man With Red Pillows (Digital Work Over Photograph By Gustavo Thomas. 2012)

Bearded Man With Red Pillows

(Digital Art Over Photograph. By Gustavo Thomas © 2012. All Rights Reserved)

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"Body And Cushion" (Digital Art Over Photograph By Gustavo Thomas. 2012)

Body And Cushion

(Digital Art Over Photograph. By Gustavo Thomas © 2012. All Rights Reserved)

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A Children's Tale Tree (Digital Painting By Gustavo Thomas. 2012)

A Children's Tale Tree

(Digital Painting. Gustavo Thomas © 2012. All Rights Reserved.)

To tell stories for children, either by writing or playing, you need a fantastic tree full of colour and simplicity. 

There will be time to start writing them ...

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This Child Behind The Glass Looks Like a Girl (Digital Art Over Photograph By Gustavo Thomas. 2012)

This Child Behind The Glass Looks Like a Girl

(Digital Work Over Photograph. Gustavo Thomas © 2012 All Rights Reserved.)

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Nude In The Mirror (Digital Art Over Photograph by Gustavo Thomas. 2012)

Nude In The Mirror

(Digital Art Over Photograph. Gustavo Thomas © 2012. All Rights Reserced)

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This Child Behind The Glass Is A Clown (Digital Art Over Photograph By Gustavo Thomas. 2012)

Este niño detrás del vidrio es un payaso (Arte digital sobre fotografía. Gustavo Thomas © 2012)

All and every one of us change when we're seen through a glass...

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Japanese Sleeping Beauty (Digital Art Over Photograph. By Gustavo Thomas. 2011)

Japanese Sleeping Beauty (Digital Art Over Photograph. Gustavo Thomas © 2011)

I was travelling on the train from Yokohama to central Tokyo, while the car was emptying I could observe the image of a young man sleeping in his seat, exactly in front of me: his long hair and the shape of his face made me think that it was a teenage girl rather than a young man; he, as a well educated Japanese, kept his body very upright while sleeping. Then I decided to photograph him and later try to transform that image digitally. I'd discovered him as the live image of a "Japanese sleeping beauty".

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Delicacy Of The Aged. Three pieces of digital work over photographs. (From My Butoh Blog. 2012)

Delicacy of the Aged 1: The Source (By Gustavo Thomas. 2012)

Three images, digitally worked, extracted from my Butoh Vlog. The inspiration came to me from a sentence said by Kazuo Ohno during one of his workshops in his studio, in Yokohama, about the idea of moving with the 'delicacy of the aged". Working with that proposition I've transformed the sentence in my experience of enjoying being aged.

A wrote a poem about the same subject, it will be the subject of other post.

Delicacy of the Aged 2: The Recovered Matter (By Gustavo Thomas. 2012)

Delicacy of the Aged 3: The Essence (By Gustavo Thomas. 2012)

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Seven Imaginary Pictures of Mount Fuji (Digital Paintings By Gustavo Thomas. 2011)

Imaginary Mount Fuji 7. Seven Imaginary Pictures of Mount Fuji (Digital Art By Gustavo Thomas. 2011. All Rights Reserved)

Anyone who knows me well knows my love for everything oriental, specially for Japan. Although I've never seen clearly Mount Fuji (just once kind of blurry from a Tokyo skyscraper), it's an image that stays very deep in my memory because of the Japanese classic paintings and engravings and becuase of the collective imaginary.

One day of 2011, in Toronto, I missed those images of Japan, I heard in my memory some characteristic sounds of crows and thought in that Japan of my travels and my books, then I took the iPad and started to paint and explore digitally with those memories; finally I created these seven paintings that touched me personally and I'm sharing them to all of you today.

Imaginary Mount Fuji 1. Seven Imaginary Pictures of Mount Fuji (Digital Art By Gustavo Thomas. 2011. All Rights Reserved)

Imaginary Mount Fuji 2. Seven Imaginary Pictures of Mount Fuji (Digital Art By Gustavo Thomas. 2011. All Rights Reserved)

Imaginary Mount Fuji 3. Seven Imaginary Pictures of Mount Fuji (Digital Art By Gustavo Thomas. 2011. All Rights Reserved)

Imaginary Mount Fuji 4. Seven Imaginary Pictures of Mount Fuji (Digital Art By Gustavo Thomas. 2011. All Rights Reserved)

Imaginary Mount Fuji 5. Seven Imaginary Pictures of Mount Fuji (Digital Art By Gustavo Thomas. 2011. All Rights Reserved)

Imaginary Mount Fuji 6. Seven Imaginary Pictures of Mount Fuji (Digital Art By Gustavo Thomas. 2011. All Rights Reserved)

Imaginary Mount Fuji 7. Seven Imaginary Pictures of Mount Fuji (Digital Art By Gustavo Thomas. 2011. All Rights Reserved)

Slideshow of the seven images

 

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Womb (Digital Drawing. By Gustavo Thomas. 2012)

Womb

(Digital Drawing. By Gustavo Thomas. All Rights Reserved. 2012)

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Nude Behind Colours And Red Trees (Digital Work Over Photograph. By Gustavo Thomas. 2012)

Nude Behind Colours And Red Trees

(Desnudo bajo colores y arbóles rojos)

(Digital Work Over Photograph. By Gustavo Thomas. All Rights Reserved. 2012)

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