Eric Boos Digital Art

Nothing deep or profound here, just the remnants of a meal. Or maybe that’s profound enough.

The result of about a month of eating and photographing.  My attempt to take something that’s usually just gross and making it into something colorful and animated.

A Barbie doll posed as the Botticelli Venus. Both Venus and Barbie are unreal women figures, supposedly representing feminine ideals.  Of course, in this conservative age, Barbie needs strategic coverings of Barbie pink hearts to avoid the taint of questionable morality.

For me, Barbie is the perfect character, the ideal young white woman, and she’s imaginary.  Real women are, after all, real, while imaginary women can be anything.

When I was a ceramic artist I loved a type of glaze known as “blue celedon.” I like that I can create this color using electronics.  Also, the reversal of order, with larger objects more in the background and smaller objects in the foreground, creates an amusing reverse illusion of space.

It makes me think of the whole “Venus” obsession in Renaissance art.  You couldn’t paint a naked women who was someone’s mother, wife, daughter, etc.:  a real person in other words.  Only a fantasy woman, an unreal woman, could be sexualized.  Is the modern porn industry really any different?  Barbie is my Venus.

I like this yellow version as well.  I guess it’s a color theory exercise.  If you have a field of yellow/tan pastries, what color do you make the background to make them pop?  My answer is, bright yellow!