La noche mexicana

Thank you Richard,

But "the master" only did the shooting and the arrangement, it was some other master who made the figure, I found it standing in front of some Mexican restaurant!

Cheers to that, too!

PDE

Hey Alf, long time no see my friend!

Thank you for your nice comment! I've never heard of Spanish westerns though, there was a category of so called Spaghetti westerns and they were Italian!

Cheers to that

Pedro Dum'ass! 

Pierre, este trabajo es FANTASTICO!!!. Te felicito.

Saludos.

Gracias Joaquin, muchas gracias amigo!

Abrazo

PDE

Pierre, I am starting to learn how to manipulate photos, and understand that this photo took many hours to complete. Well done, indeed. I like the mood you created here.

Pierre, I have looked at this a number of times because it really intrigues me.  But I don't seem to have any insightful comments? ????????   AJ

Yeah, looks like a personality from Castaneda, very well assembled!

Janice, you got it!

It's the mood that counts on this picture and nothing else! We all have some earliest insight of everything and this is how my earliest insight of Mexico looks, desperado in the desert, saguaros and a lizard! That's it!

About the manipulations! Don't like the word, but never mind that, all that I've been doing here is selecting all figures, put them on a foreground and background firstly prepared and making shadows! That's all! The selecting is the most difficult and time consuming part, but once you select an object you make a psd file from which you may always simply drag and drop it wherever you like in seconds!

Thank you for your visit and nice comment!

PDE

Thank you AJ,

I told Janice this: It's the mood that counts on this picture and nothing else! We all have some earliest insight of everything and this is how my earliest insight of Mexico looks, desperado in the desert, saguaros and a lizard! That's it!

PDE

Welcome and thank you, Vlad!

I thought Castaneda was in Spain, ha!

PDE

I often like to wait to see what others say which helps to formulate my own ideas. What strikes me here above all is your reference to selection, that of the elements that will interpret your ideas.  How much is willful, how much dependent on the subconscious, I find that an interesting question? Indeed, as you so rightly say, our experiences, especially the early ones, are filtered down to isolated objects and events, that put together at a later date create the surreal that you describe in your images.  Their meaning to others however can differ largely to what the author has in mind, but that is largely what art is all about, open to our interpretation. Ha, in this context, I remember an interview I read with Picasso who wrote that the nonsense that some art critics wrote about his works and his intentions was sometimes quite amazing.

Composition wise, irrespective of the symbolism, this work is quite striking, the colouring and overall design too. Some people on PN like to criticize the fact that we visit our friend's works and heap praise and ratings on them, my only recommendation would be that they try to make some friends too .. : -). That said, I would love this image, whoever had created it, it is a true expression of art (and my wife looking over my shoulder loves it too). 

Thank you, John,

I can't but agree with all you said! I only couldn't say where are our aesthetic feelings treasured, in our consciousness or in our subconsciousness! Most likely both, the ones whose source we can explain are in our consciousness, the rest is buried under the veil  of our subconsciousness!

Simplifying things helps us explain the unexplainable! Ha!

Cheers to that

PDE

Ah . . . a scene from the Sonoran Desert, replete with a gila monster and a well preserved mummy of Pancho Villa!  Pancho appears to have been wrapped with gauze, fashioned to resemble clothing.  And I guess the lizard isn't tall enough to be able to cast a shadow.

The darker exposure, in my opinion, really creates the image's overall atmosphere and mood.  Together with a cloud partially covering a full moon, it is serious - better still - somber.  It helps to confirm the darker and more difficult eras in Mexican history.

What ultimately attracts viewers to images like this is that they exhibit the underlying principle of surrealism:  reality mixed with illogical elements.  I am definitely one of them!

My best always,

michael

Thank you, Michael!

You said it all, but this picture and similar with, as you call it the mummy of senor Villa is sometimes called El Zapatista, sometimes El desperado, sometimes El revolucionario! That's because I count all the above in the same category! Ignorant me!

Best regards

PDE

P.S. And the lizard doesn't have a decent shadow because I'm lazy, ha!

very interesting combinations here Pierre...the sky is a great backdrop to this mysterious image...very clever my friend...regards....David

Thank you David,

You know how much I appreciate your critique!

PDE

Resto sempre stupefatto sulla tua maestria nel rendere le ombre: sei un genio!

Maurizio stupefatto!

Esattamente! Per favore, dire qualcosa che noi già non sappiamo!

Ciaomau

Pietro il Cattivo

Love it!

Hey, Kathy, long time no see!

Thank you for your precious visit and nice comment!

PDE