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HONEY, I SHRUNK THE ART SHOW

Presented by Tom Whalen & Dave Perillo via Gallery1988

This collection of small artworks celebrating 80s pop-culture officially opens tomorrow, Friday July 19th. Prints and originals are all under 6x6 inches and will be available online at Gallery 1988.

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I took a brief break from my current project to create a tribute to my favorite little puppet ever crafted: The ‘Allo Worm from 1986’s Labyrinth by Jim Henson.


….Did you just say “Ello”?

(No, I said ‘Allo’ but that’s close enough.)


Note: According to the script, it’s written as Allo, not Ello, which is how it’d be written in his cockney accent, despite it being widely seen as Ello across a variety of official Labyrinth stuff like the pinball machine I saw recently.


Hidden in my labyrinth is this very greeting, and I went with ‘Allo! for film accuracy. But please feel free to continue to call him The ‘Ello Worm, because after all, he’s “just a worm”.


Just A Worm

by C.A. Martin

6x6 mini giclée print

Numbered /30


Thanks so much to Tom Whalen for the invitation.





I am beyond excited to share the first installment in my officially licensed trilogy series for The Lord of The Rings, in collaboration with Vice Press! The Fellowship of The Ring regular version (in blue) is available as a limited TIMED edition lithograph for one week only.


Anyone purchasing this first release in the series will also get first dibs on the next releases as and when they happen.


DETAILS:

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring - Regular (in blue)

Timed Edition From 1pm EST 23rd May to 1pm EST 29th May

24x36 inches

Hand Numbered Fine Art Lithograph

£39.99 / $50


The FOIL variant (in sepia brown)

Limited Edition of 150

24x36 inches

Hand Numbered Fine Art Lithograph

Printed On Mirri Silver Foil Paper.

£49.99 / $65


BTW: The other two print installments are in the pipeline, as I designed the trio simultaneously to work well as a set. (All the concepts were approved at the same time.)

Two Towers artwork is at the final approvals stage, and Return of The King's painting is underway. So if you like what you see here, take advantage of the timed edition and don't miss your chance to complete the full set.


Hopefully, you'll enjoy what's coming next just as much...






I experienced the 2024 Total Solar Eclipse with my husband from a vantage point of a hill on a snowy golf course at Spruce Peak in Stowe, Vermont. 


I found the 2 minutes and 51 seconds of totality incredibly overwhelming. 


It was surreal, like a dream.


It was like staring at impending death and surviving.

 


I didn’t feel small like I thought I would. I felt temporary, and witness to something miraculously unlikely. It was without a doubt the most astonishing thing I have ever experienced. 


I could not have predicted the feelings it elicited---I laugh/cried through the whole thing, my hands intensely shaking. To see the moon temporarily transform into a virtual black hole felt terrifyingly primal. In my mind's eye, my memory of the scene drones with infinite void.

 

Viewing the corona and solar prominences with my naked eyes felt startlingly intimate. To stare at something normally forbidden to the human gaze felt unsettling, but I couldn't look away. I have no idea if the stars came out or not, because my focus was on Sun and Moon and Venus, the stars of our personal planetarium show from a hilltop.

 

I'm not one for worship, but after this encounter I feel compelled to give proper deference to the Sun as creator and destroyer of life. I bow down to her majesty, and to the Moon's as well.


I couldn’t have dreamed of a better once-in-a-lifetime moment, but we didn’t have a single photo that captured all the components of the scene as I remember it (the vibrant colors, the subtle light, the eclipse itself and its overall scale over the landscape). My husband and I had recorded a few iPhone videos during totality but had not taken still photos of the scene itself.


As an illustrator, I experience the world through images. As a human with a fallible memory, I rely on images to remember my life. I needed to create the ultimate visual cue that captured all the aspects of our particular moment as I remember it feeling.

So I extracted multiple frames from our videos filmed during totality and reassembled and merged them to depict the fuller landscape all in one image. Then I did a bit of painting to the sky, replaced our blown out eclipse ring with a photo of the eclipse as photographed in Stowe by someone with a better setup than us, and tweaked the color and lighting to better reflect how I recall it all looking.


I think this photo/painting/collage/composite is a close approximation of what the experience felt like to me. (I've included a before and after process image for reference).


It’s an art piece, so it's not 100% accurate, but it’s emotionally true and it will help me forever remember that feeling of astounded awe.


While I understand totality chasers, I had such an unexpectedly perfect first time experience that as of right now, I don't have the impulse to seek another.   


-C



THE FULL SCENE, LOOKING LEFT AND STRAIGHT AHEAD



THE CORONA & SOLAR PROMINENCES (PLUS VENUS)




COMPOSITE IMAGE: BEFORE & AFTER



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