THROUGH EUROPE. Architectural structures in GLASS, STEEL, BRICK & STONE BEAUTY.

"The Hanseatic Triumph". 2010. Damyan29 Artistic Photography

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Burgermeisteramt" 2010. Damyan29 Artistic Photography ~~~ "The European Coal & Steel Community I" 2010. Damyan29 Artistic Photography ~~~ "The European Coal & Steel Community II" 2010. Damyan29 Artistic Photography ~~~

Mary J Blige - The Queen of R'n'B Art Nouveau Portrait by Damyan29

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"Mary J Blige" Art Nouveau Portrait by Damyan

Year: 2007

Support/Medium/Technique: Mixed medium on Art Paper

Dimensions: 297 x 420 mm

Availability: Original and LTD Signed Copies Available

Artistic D29 Photography II

"Leader" 2010 by Damyan29. Photography.

"Birth-Death Process" 2010 by Damyan29. Photography.

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Damyan's Collection of Portraits of Famous Artists (Actors, Singers, Sportsmen)

To see more portraits please watch the presentation on Youtube: Damyan's Portrait Art.

Narcissus with a Peacock. In "Neo-Nouveau"/Jugendstil Style.

Inspired from Greek mythology the central figure of the painting , Narcissus, appears with a Peacock, a proeminent Art Nouveau bird-symbol (sublime beauty), craving his beauty. Such giants of Jugendstil like Alfonse Mucha (czech) and Gustav Klimt (austrian) played a key role as sources of inspiration for this painting.


I also used 2 titans that flank the composition on both sides on decorative nouveau frame as symbols of strength, protection, durability drawn from a neo-renaissance style facade of one of the beautiful buildings in the "Vynohrady" (grapes) district in Prague. I present the full colour and a tinted black-and-white variation of the painting.

"Narcissus with a Peacock" 2009. Neo-Nouveau

Medium: Mixed Medium, Watercolour, coloured pens, coloured inks on Art paper.

Dimensions: 420 x 550 mm

Place of Creation: Prague, Czech Republic

Availability: Original Available; LTD Signed Reproductions.

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Decorative Glass Panels

I've always adored this material.

It's flexible, versatile, fragile, can have any possible colours, can be transparent and opaque, cold and warm, reflective, futuristic and ofcourse beautiful. The GLASS. It's a parabola of water. The solid water in it's countless forms and variations. A truesy fascinating building/ art material for the future.

How monotone and boring are most of the office buildings, or massive regular plane facades cover with tons of glass pannels with no spirit, soul or creational nerve. I present a possible design for a Public Bulding with coloured glass pannels using one of my digital graphic works "Marylin Monroe, the Dusk/Symbol Variation". I used a skyscraper on purpose. The skyscrapers are a symbol of industrialization and developement era, and the decorative IMAGE used, as a specific continuation, the beauty symbol of the XX-th century - Marylin Monroe.

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"Anybody Seen My Baby?" Photography. 2007

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"Bilboko Spherical Reflections" Photography. 2010

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Deep & Reflective Matters

All photo files are scaled down to an optimal quality/size balance, and watermarked with logo and text in one of the corners. The colour tones might be sligtly retouched from te original shots. For all exquisite photography lovers and art contemplators.

"Ratew I" Photography. 2010

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D29's Photography Sessions

I'd like to present and share with you my photography art. Stills , landscapes, casual, urbanistic, rural photography. Most of the photographs have been artistically edited (refocused, colour enchanced, cropped, retouched) and watermarked with a faded logotype "Damyan29" in the centre. 

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"Gaudi's Caprice" Photography. 2010

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"Benedictine Aspiration" Photography. 2008

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"Momento Mori" Photography. 2008

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"Twenty Four Palm Leafs and a Red Car" Photography. 2010

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"The Brick Arch Legacy" photography. 2010

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"Cihtog" Photography. 2010

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"Swallen Laws. Together But Apart" Photography. 2010

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"Incandescent Dolphins" Photography. 2009

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"Holy, Holy, Holy INRI" Photography. 2007 ~

"Perpetual Permutations...?" Photography. 2009

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"A Glimpse of a Game called "Geniality"" Photography. 2008 ~

"149.597.890.000" Photography. 2010

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"149.597.890.000" Detail. Photography. 2010

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The Magical Symbolism of the Number 33

I was always fond of numbers and their magic. Numerology presents to me a unusual science which in one or another way, as I see it, reflects the structure of the universe we live in, by counting the objects and measuring phenomena around us.

Geometry, Physics, Mathematics, Astronomy and many other sciences need NUMBERS to define certain rules that people have discovered along the history of the world, and use the magic of the numbers that helped so much to explain elementary laws of physics. It appears that the numbers are the core of the universe, and all it's content... as we know, the analysed part by scientists, our Solar system, follows exact cycles, periods, exact measurable rules that repeat during a very long time so far! Is it a result of chaos or entropy (measure of randomness and successive regressive process)? Think about it.

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"Sagrada Familia"/"The Holy Family" Facade of Jesus' Passions. Fragment of a Bronze Plaque. (Barcelona, Spain)

Once I came across a interesting numerologic exercise to see what number domines me or my life. So the scheme was simple to sum the numbers of your birthday... As numerology is one of most symbolistic sciences of all which use number, i realised the number of my life is 33 (summing all the unique numbers in my birth date = 33).

I did a bit of research and understood my hidden connection with certain people, objects, dates through just analysing the numbers and have discovered even more when reserched in depth the symbolism of number 33. Also i came upon another interesting fact, that most of people born with the Karmic Number 33, were mostly born closer to the end of each century... Also if we analyse history we can see that many of the people : the geniuses and tyrans were born in the end of a certain century.. just a few last decades. If you want to find out your potential Karmic number just follow : for exemple you were born on 21 december 1978 = the calculation is : 2+1 +1+2+ 1+9+7+8 = 31. The Sagrada Família Magic Square Josep Subirachs was one of the leading sculptors of the XXth century in Barcelona. The Passion façade of the Sagrada Família church in Barcelona, designed by him, features a 4×4 magic square: The magic constant of the square is 33, the age of Jesus at the time of the Passion. Structurally, it is very similar to the Melancholia magic square, but it has had the numbers in four of the cells reduced by 1.

Fragment of the Expiatory Temple of Sagrada Familia ; Juda betraying Jesus by kissing him and The Magic Square summing 33 in almost 33 combinations. (Barcelona, Spain)

Selected examples of occurrences of number 33 in History, Religion, Science :

• The Christ in the Gospels accomplishes 33 miracles of which 24 were cures.
• According to the law of Moses, Number of days following the circumcision of the foreskin of the child where the mother had to purify her blood. She did not have to touch nothing of sacred and not to go to the sanctuary until 33 days have been passed. (Lv 12,4-8)
• King David reigned 33 years to Jerusalem. (1 Ch 3,4)
• There are 33 doctors of the Church, or theologians, to which the Roman Catholic Church recognizes a particular authority of witnesses of the doctrine. The list of the 32 last is given in "Theo, New catholic encyclopedia", Droquet and Ardant, Fayard, 1989, p. 23. There are thirty men and three women.
• The thirty-third year of a person, it is the perfect age, that of the full development, according to Mary Agreda.
• It is at this age that Jesus-Christ was crucified (lived 33 years).
• Saint Joseph was also 33 years old when he took for wife the Virgin Mary, according to visions of Mary Agreda.
• According to some authors, it is the age that will have the Antichrist at the time of his advent.
• The 33 litany of angels.
• The Basilica of saint Peter in Rome counts 33 chapels: 29 in the Basilica itself and 4 of more in the crypt.
• The Hebraic tradition distinguishes 32 ways of the Wisdom to which it adds "Ain Soph" or the unknowable one.
• The 33 divinities, divided into three classes, invoked in the songs of the Rig-Veda.
• The Zen books represent us the genius solar surrounded by 33 atmospheric gods.
• After a fast of 40 days, Buddha left the desert to go to exert his apostolate and he was followed by 33 princes of spirits to which he gave the sacred instruments that are used by the musicians in the pagodas.
• A legend wants also that 33 "Arhats" spread Buddhism.
• In his "Divine Comedy", Dante attributed 33 songs to the Purgatory and 33 songs to the Sky.
• The 33 ranks (or degrees of initiation) of the Masonic hierarchy, divisible in 3 series of 11.
• And 33 members compose the Council of the Order of the Great Orient of France.
• 33 - Number of days of the "intellectual" cycle in the biorhythm.
• The United Nations logo represents a terrestrial globe divided in 33 fragments.
• Total number of vertebrae of the spinal column of the human body, in which pass 33 pairs of nervous groups.
• The number 33 is used 6 times in the Bible.
• The words "cross" and "devil" are used 33 times in the New Testament and the word "sickness", 33 times in the Old Testament.
• The words "miracle" and the verb "to blaspheme" are used 33 times in the Bible.
• The Bible contains totally : 66 books (33 + 33)

The Scheme in the temple of Sagrada Familia in Barcelona (Catalonia region, Spain) explaining the combinations of highlighted in red numbers summing 33. The right bottom corner containing the Magic Square thats sums "33" in all directions and senses.

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Some famous people (very few by the way) having the number 33 as the potential symbolic (Karmic way of a Saviour, aslo symbolising the TRUTH) number in their birth date:

• Albert Einstein (German Physicist) = March 14, 1879 = 1+4+0+3+1+8+7+9 = 33  

Prague - Heart of Europe. Graphic Work (Fragment)

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"Prague - The Heart Of Europe" (2007)

Artist: Damyan TwoNine

Dimensions: 297 x 420 mm

Support/Medium/Techinque: Grainy Tinted Art Paper, Black Ink, Rapidograph Technique

Place of Creation: Prague, Czech Rep.

Availability: Original Sold (Private Collection, USA)

LTD Signed Reproductions of any size Available.

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"Prague - The European Capital, The City Jewel" (2007)

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"Prague - The European Capital, Jewel City" (2007) by Damyan TwoNine

Dimensions: A3 size : 420 x 297 mm

Support/Medium/Technique: Pencil and black ink on Goznak Art Paper, Rapidograph.

Place of Creation: Prague, Czech Republic

Availability: Original Sold (Private Collection, USA)

LTD Signed Reproductions/Prints of any size Available.

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Comment: I used the image of "The Girl" (dreaming) from Glustav Klimt's painting (one of the main and most attractive paintings exhibited in Prague's Museum of Modern Arts [Veletrzny Palac]), as Europa - the Goddess on the background of European Continent (with all the stars as symbols locating the capitals of each European Country, while the Girl's Numb : The Symbol of EU = 12 stars "beatify" her into Saint Mary, mother of Jesus, where the EU flag derives from) in the top part; also the darker shaped countries on the European map show the EU members, and the lighter ones, the states outside EU community. After that zooming into Czech State shape with the shape of Prague as seen from the space in it's center, and the river flowing under the famous panorama of Prague with bridges (5 bridges on here, the second lower bridge: the Charles Bridge) over Vltava (Moldau) river and ending in the bottom part with a Prague map graphisme.

"Prague - The European Capital, Jewel City" (2007) (Fragment)

Barcelona, Temple Expiatori De La Sagrada Familia (2010)

Title of the Painting: "Barcelona, Temple Expiatori De La Sagrada Familia" (2010)

Artist: Damyan TwoNine

Dimensions: 500 x 500 mm

Support and Medium : Oil on Canvas

Technique: Square Pointillism, Impressionism

Place of Creation: Prague, Czech Republic.

Availability: Available for Sale

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Comment: The Expiatory Temple "Sagrada Familia" without a doubt is a Masterpiece and symbol of Future. Between the other merits and facts is the top visited attraction in Barcelona (and Spain) with more than 2.000.000 visitors a year (According to the newspaper El Periódico de Catalunya, 2.26 million people visited the partially built church in 2004). As an artist I can comment this monumental piece for days...

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As all the big revelative art works, as we know from history, were criticised and mocked before they became recognized and widely appreciated... Sagrada Familia temple was always an inspiration source for me. More than that, it was a lighthouse in the world of arts for me, as I felt from the very beginning, when I saw a picture of it in a magazine, a strong connection and passion for it, a sort of mystical magnetic energy. My rebellious and ambitious spirit with wild fantasy and whimsical ideas find their perfect reflection in this glorious temple.

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I think, you have to be pretty crazy not to appreciate this truely A M A Z I N G church! By the year 2026, when it is planned to be completed, the Temple will be the tallest in the world with it's highest central tower of Jesus Christ, surmounted by a giant cross, with total height of 170 m! Truely fascinating dimension and completely adequate to worship the Lord (as I believe the biggest Artist and Source of Inspiration).

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The financial resources used early for the construction of the Church are faboulous! Also all the money (11 Euro entry fee) collected from the sold tickets go directly in the budget for it's construction. Each year the budget consits : 15.000.000 - 20.000.000 Euro.... So if you add up all the money spent on it from it's very foundation in 1882 (under construction for allready more than 127 years) (considering the inflation) you can easily arrive at the summ close to 1.000.000.000 (A BILLION) Euro... probably the most expensive and the longest lasting construction of an architectural religious project in Spain, and maybe in entire world; competing with St. Peter's Basilica in Rome, the biggest Church in the World (construction period 120 years) !

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If you ever come to visit the beautiful city of Barcelona, don't miss the opportunity to at least walk around the Temple and admire it's monumentality, symbolism and beauty domining Barcelona! Address: Barcelona, Calle Mallorca, 08034. Metro Sation: Sagrada Familia, (Blue Line, L5) and (Purple Line, L2).

Infatuatiorgasm (2009)

"Infatuatiorgasm" 2009

Artist: Damyan TwoNine

Dimensions: 550 x 1000 mm.

Support: Hard Cardboard.

Medium: Coloured Wax, Ink.

Place of Creation: Prague. Czech Republic.

Availability: Available for Sale

Damyan's "Metrosexual" and PostPop Art

"Narcissus and The Peacock. The Neon Night Variation" (2009)

Artist: Damyan TwoNine

Dimensions: 420 x 550 mm

Type/Medium: Digital Graphic Work.
Availability: LTD Reproductions of any size available for sale

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"Narcissus and The Peacock. The Neon Night Variation" (2009)

Digital Graphic Work. Detail.

The new series of Damyan's digital graphic works continuing the celebrities and mythological architypes theme. Each work expresses and characterizes the subconscious message of the portrayed protagonists. Narcissus, in love with himself adored by the Peacock, appears in a hermetic atmosphere of mercury and silver. Sylver being the symbol of the mirror and the medium that contributes to Narcissus' "autoerotism" and self-admiration. (Greek mythology and Sigmund Freud)

"Narcissus and the Peacock. A Hermetic Liquid Mercury State" (2009)

Artist: Damyan TwoNine

Dimensions: 380 x 500 mm

Type/Medium: Digital Graphic Work

Availability: LTD Reproductions of any size available for sale

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"Jennifer Lopez - The Metrosexual Diva" (2009)

Artist: Damyan TwoNine

Natural Dimensions: 297 x 420 mm

Type/Medium/Style: Digital Graphic Work. Art Deco/Nouveau/PostPop Art

Availability: LTD Reproductions of any size available for sale

Comment: a good example of a classic architype of Cinderella, who's achieved the Metrosexual Success and Life Style.

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"Marilyn Monroe - The Hydrogenic Bomb XX" (2009)

Artist: Damyan TwoNine

Natural Dimensions: 297 x 420 mm

Type/Medium: Digital Graphic Work.

Availability: LTD Reproductions of any size available for sale.

Comment: Interesting if any other of the famous Primadonnas like Madonna, Kylie Minogue, Kim Basinger or Claudia Schiffer would blind so many people and and become the symbol of a whole century as Marylin did..... following the example of Gioconda (Moaner Lisa)...

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Sarah Michelle Gellar Portrait by Damyan

Newly commissioned pencil portrait of the actress "Sarah Michelle Gellar" (2009).

Dimensions: A3 size : 297 x 420 mm

Support/Medium/Technique: Pencil and black ink on Art yellow tinted Paper. Gothic style graphic frame. "Buffy - The Vampire Slayer" logotype.

Place of Creation: Prague, Czech Rep.

Availability: Original Sold (Private Collection, UK)

LTD Signed Reproductions of any size Avalable.

Art Nouveau Portrait of Michael Jackson. Phenomenon. 2009.

I'm glad to inform you that my portrait of Michael Jackson - The Legend of Music, was recently sold and now only the Reprographic Copyes are available for sale. Look at the fan's coments on stars-portraits.com website Michael Jackson's Art Nouveau portrait by Damyan.

"Michael Jackson, The Phenomenon" (2009) by Damyan TwoNine
Dimensions: A3 size : 297 x 420 mm
Support/Medium/Technique: Pencil and black ink, Golden Ink on Art yellow tinted Paper. Gothic style graphic frame. "MJ Golden Neverland Seal" logotype.
Place of Creation: Prague, Czech Rep.
Availability: Original Sold (Private Collection, USA)
LTD Signed Reproductions of any size Avalable.

DAMYAN's Celebrities Portraits Collection in a Video Art Presentation

The Artist Damyan29 Presents: a collection of 50 exclusive Portraits he has done during the past 10 years (1997-2007). In this video clip/slide show art presentation are included also Damyan self-portraits which appear in the beginning.

The collection is unique for several reasons. Originality in style, uniqueness, precision, variety of techniques, likeness, variety of symbols accompanying the portrayed famous people, very personal attitude and attention to the detail (if analysed carefully) cannot leave you unimpressed. Some of those are still available in Original. Also Damyan provides Limited Edition signed Reproductions in various sizes on your wish.

LIST of CELEBRITIES that Damyan has portrayed:

50 CENT, ACCENT, AKON, AMY WINEHOUSE, ANASTACIA, ANGELINA JOLIE, BEATLES, BEN AFFLECK, BRAD PITT, BRITNEY SPEARS, CHRIS MARTIN, CHRISTINA AGUILERA, DAVE GAHAN, DAVID BECKHAM, DEPECHE MODE, PRINCESS DIANA, DIDO, DIMA BILAN, ELVIS PRESLEY, JAMES BLUNT, JENNIFER ANISTON, JENNIFER LOPEZ, JODIE FOSTER, JOHN COGHLAN [STATUS QUO], JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE, KELLY CLARKSON, KYLIE MINOGUE, LEONARDO DI CAPRIO, LIL JON, LINKIN PARK, MADONNA, MARILYN MONROE, MARY J BLIGE, MICHAEL JACKSON, ORLANDO BLOOM, RIHANNA, RONAN KEATING, SHAKIRA, TOM CRUISE, UMA THURMAN, WILL CHALKER, ZDOB SI ZDUB.

DON’T FORGET that each unique original PORTRAIT posted on this site cannot be repeated so those who hesitate may be disappointed or have to settle for a LIMITED EDITION signed COPY of the ORIGINAL.

DON’T FORGET if your favorite painting or graphic work is already SOLD and you only want a UNIQUE ORIGINAL drawing or painting by Damyan, you can order a SPECIAL COMMISSION to your exact choice and wishes!

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Damyan's Paintings during the Academy Years 2004-2007

Here I present a few more paintings created in the years of Academy studies. Most concentrate on the Phylosophic Theme of Time, Culture, Heritage. Mostly done in mixed mediums, you can distinguish Watercolour, Oil, Tempera, Gouache. Please enjoy the presentation (post).

"The Microworld" (2005)

Dimensions: 300 x 200mm.

Support and Medium: Gouache, Tempera, Watercolour.

Availability: Available for Sale.

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"Rome. The Commencement" (2004)

Dimensions: 600 x 450 mm
Support and Medium: Gouache, Tempera, Watercolour, Mixed Mediums on Art Paper
Availability: Available for Sale.

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"Laus Athletis Olympia Vincentibus" (2004)

Dimensions: 500 x 600mm

Support and Medium: Gouache, Watercolour, Ink on Art Paper.
Availability: Available for Sale.

"Laus Athletis Olympia Vincentibus" (2004) Detail.

Comment: This work was conceived as a"SKETCH"/"PROJECT" for a possible theatrical panoramic background pannel. The theme of Olympic games illustrated here with the Acropolis (Athens, Greece) Architectural landscape, the sillouette of the Winner with Laurels and the inscriptions in old greek language serve here as a symbols building the atmosphere of Olympic Games. As source of inspiration certainly were The Olympic Games which were born in Ancient Greece and were held in honour of Zeus, the father of the Gods. The first Olympic Games took place in Olympia for the first time in the 7th century B.C. According to the myth, they were founded by Pelops, the King of Peloponnese. Olympia is considered as one of the most important sanctuaries of antiquity.The Olympic Games were reserved exclusively for young males from the Greek world which confronted each others for the glory and a wreath of olive leafs. The competition included athletics categories of wrestling, long jump, discus, running, javelin throwing, chariot, horse racing and the pancratium.

"The Metamorphosys of Time. The Sun" Sketch. Oil on Canvas. 250 x 320 mm.

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"The Metamorphosys of Time. Desintegration of Matter" 2004. Oil, Mixed Medium. 300 x 400 mm

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"Xerox III" (2006) Collage. Mixed Medium. 550 x 650 mm

Xerox III presents the image of the technological progress, and the "digitalisation" of the present world. The Repetitive verticals intensify the Mono-directional rhythm and create the ambiance of a Printing Mechanism inside of the Copying Machine.

"Xerox III" (2006) Detail.

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