I have been at the Universidad de Santiago de Chile for two days : 13/8/15 & 14/8/15. On the first day I did a lecture about masks of the world – a very potted, brief history of masks as I understand it. On the second day I did a lecture about reliquaries. These are two … Continue reading Research trip to Santiago de Chile
I am here in Santiago, Chile, on a Santander funded research trip in collaboration with Universidad de Santiago de Chile, to study Pre-Columbian art, and contemporary art of Santiago. Here are a few pages of what I have done so far: This is one of my favourite things I saw in the Museo Chilean de … Continue reading Research trip to Santiago, Chile
Some of the graphics, such as the coin, question mar box, and the Mario character are painted into my Mario Brother homage mask. I painted them to look like blocky, 8-Bit graphics, as they appear in the game. This image (right) is taken from Super Mario Brothers 2, which was released in 1987, and in … Continue reading Super Mario Brothers
The Super Mario Bros. video games had a massive impact on me when I was growing up. The shapes and colours that I saw while playing these games, and the electronic sounds that accompanied them have influenced the forms and colours I use – particularly in my collage work. I painted this mask as a … Continue reading Continuation of The World Masks of The Rhondda
‘World Masks of The Rhondda’ is a working title for a series of masks I am currently working on. I have appropriated a mask carved in Africa and sold to me in a market near the Ethnological Museum in Berlin. When I returned to Cardiff, I wondered how many of the same style mask the … Continue reading World Masks of The Rhondda
James Green 