SHAWSHANK STUDIO
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SHAWSHANK STUDIO
An arty film of my studio shot saturday night 19th April 2008 when the Shawshank Redemption was on the box. I use the telly like the radio - it is on, but I don't really sit down and just watch it, face to screen. I listen to it more than watch it. I am doing other stuff while it is on, like drawing or painting or taking photos of Canary Wharf from my studio window. The Shawshank Redemption is one of those films that you never get tired of. It is loved by people around the world because of its tale of the human spirit which can survive and even flourish in all conditions of brutality and man's inhumanity to man. This section when he plays Mozart to the prisoners and they all feel something is the essence of the film. They are transcended into a place of pure beauty, or, at the very least, they feel something different from the humdrum banality of prison life. Just for a few wonderful moments they can forget their captivity and they are set free by the genius of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. I feel I have a certain affinity with Andy not least because I look a little bit like Tim Robbins. The film then pans around the studio and shows a few of the abstracts I am working on at present. There are a projected 100 of these in this series, of which i have completed about 70. Then comes small face drawings from a couple of years back and a painting I did many years back called "Self Portrait as a Werewolf" and then another early work called "Ecstatic Cyclops". Then back to the movie. You can see more of my work here: http://www.ahumanbeing.com
YouTube | April 21, 2008
