Thursday, July 24, 2008

chimera


chimera \ky-MIR-uh\, noun:
1. (Capitalized) A fire-breathing she-monster represented as having a lion's head, a goat's body, and a serpent's tail.
2. Any imaginary monster made up of grotesquely incongruous parts.
3. An illusion or mental fabrication; a grotesque product of the imagination.
4. An individual, organ, or part consisting of tissues of diverse genetic constitution, produced as a result of organ transplant, grafting, or genetic engineering.
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The background is a digitally printed photo-illustration (that means I photoshopped it enough that I feel I have to own up) of grafitti along the River Tibor in Rome. The "chimera" is chine-collé and stone lithography printed on top.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

love the concept here - urban chimera, actually I am a chimera groupie. But I'd love to have seen the c with some kind of expression, something to let me know how you/it feels about where you put it.

Then again, I'm not the visual guy.