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Photographer  Jim McNitt {Karma:11246}
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About The iconography of Hieronimus Bosch has fascinated me since the day I saw a reproduction of the center panel of "Garden of Earthly Delights" on a 1960s album cover for the group Pearls Before Swine. The composite figures in this image and the preceeding post, "She Only Dreams when the Skeletons Dance," are an effort to use photography and digital editing to create hybrid creatures that defy the imperatives of evolution. Bosch's demons embodied the supersitions and symbolism of Medieval Europe. Since then, Western consciousness has experienced the ideas of Renaissance and the Age of Reason, not to mention Newton, Darwin, Einstein and Freud. But the power of visual imagery that combines human features with the animalistic, or even the mechanical, seems largely undiminished and, at times, profoundly disturbing.
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Ben Goossens   {K:491} 11/16/2003
I love this one... very creative, simple and well done.
regards, bBen

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Maja Gligoric Maja Gligoric   {K:13528} 11/12/2003
You're style is really unusual.I like it!
I found a lot similar things between you and "Monty Pyton" style.
Have you seen some of Pyton's movie?

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Alberto Agnoletti   {K:12811} 11/6/2003
Fantastic photoart!!!
Congrats!
Best regards, Alberto

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jo pez   {K:2958} 11/6/2003
...nice game...i like that reproduction of symbols...
...nice to me...:))

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Alan Orr   {K:9671} 11/5/2003
This one strikes me as being sad. The facial expression of the duckman, is definitely sad. He doesnt want to see the time keeper but he must go. Perhaps his time is up. The top of this creature would prefer to float, but the legs of man must hurry. I dont have much faith in this time keeper either, there being a gear laying around. Im hoping there is a happy ending for the creature.

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kita mcintosh   {K:18594} 11/3/2003
well, this one isn,t disturbing at all to me..... love it to bits-have to say the poor duck looks a bit pathetic with the burden of those 2 legs - I think he would have preferred his own webby affairs ah ah ah-great!!!!!!!!!!!in my favs

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Lou Verruto   {K:1375} 11/2/2003
Sick, sick man!

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Roger Cotgreave   {K:15892} 11/2/2003
Pearls Before Swine now that brings back some fond hazy memories...Jim you have been very busy since I last looked into your portfolio. Great stuff and I know you are not in it for the comments but take this to comment on all of them you are an artistic genius or you have some great 'Bob Hope' you are not telling us about. I am off to peruse your other work...rog

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G C   {K:12204} 11/2/2003
This is amazing, Jim! I've got that Pearls Before Swine album around here somewhere too - love how this has inspired you. Cheers!

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MaryBell    {K:32791} 10/31/2003
I find this very true: 'the power of visual imagery that combines human features with the animalistic, or even the mechanical, seems largely undiminished and, at times, profoundly disturbing."

Mary

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Laurie J. Herndon   {K:5338} 10/30/2003
YOU KILL ME JIM. ANOTHER CRAZY (AND YES, PROFOUNDLY DISTURBING) LOOK AT YOUR WACKY IMAGINATION. GOTTA LUV IT.... BELLA

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Craig Garland   {K:27077} 10/30/2003
Another bizarre one Jim. You really did some good work on the bird (with human eye?) and human legs, but what really catches and holds my curiosity is the gear in front of birdwoman (they look like women's legs to me?). One of the clock gears you picked up on eBay perhaps. It seems to me that it represents the birth of reason, the Industrial Age, and the scientific thought you mention.

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Hakan Aker   {K:14146} 10/30/2003
Excellent as usual...

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Mário Sousa   {K:16985} 10/30/2003
Beautiful image
Thank

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Chris Spracklen   {K:32552} 10/30/2003
Jim, it's extraordinary! Not just the concept and technique, but the breadth of knowledge you have!
I stand in awe! You're an artist and a scholar!
And yet I find myself reminded of the words of the wise man who said: "I applied myself to the understanding of wisdom, and also of madness and foly, but I learned that this, too, is a chasing after the wind. For with much wisdom comes much sorrow; the more knowledge, the more grief."
My hope is that, somewhere in amongst the maelstrom of ideas that genius tends to get caught up in, you'll find him who was something altogether more remarkable than part bird and part human ~ that is, the One who remained fully God on becoming fully human.
Best regards, Chris

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B:)liana    {K:30945} 10/30/2003
Mama mia. JIMdali are you feeling alright ;-) Great stuff. great hipergreat imagination you have my wonderful Friend. Kisses, BIliana

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Katharine E. Wright   {K:533} 10/30/2003
Yes, I think Rhonda's right about the book.
I find the eye to be disturbing in the bird's body, but the legs strike me as whimsical too.
If Bosch's images are all about sin and punishment, I find myself wondering what yours are about . I think I'll go back and look at them as a group. Fascinating image.

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Rhonda Prince   {K:17687} 10/30/2003
This one is definitely not disturbing, at least not to me, (maybe I'm disturbed) but more whimsical. You know this time series has to become a book don't you?

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ADAM ORZECHOWSKI ADAM ORZECHOWSKI   {K:7957} 10/30/2003
Another creative art picture,with fantastic idea.well done Jim

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