Mise Amor Solarplate Etching on Fabbriano Art paper, Digital Print on Perspex
Finalist of the New Zealand Painting and Printmaking Award 2011 280 entries, 52 Artworks selected by Warwick Brown this year.
Mise Amor is a play on word as well as a “play on Art”:
It is a mixture of French (mise=put) and Spanish (amor=love).
In french phonetic it will sound like “mise à mort”= put down.
But, in fact it is “put in love” in the actual translation…
Inspiration
Rarotonga, the house with tags
Camargue, France the Bull (Toro)
Spain, the Matador (Toreador)
New Zealand, the Mariposa (Monarch butterfly)
The Web gave me the Dancer
It is about death, beauty, love and misery, the feeling we experience in a different way with a different country, culture, ethny.
Universality and Uniqueness.