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 Al Razza
Coral Springs , Florida-
United States
Mixed Media & Collage-
Abstract
I live in Florida, where I operate my own gallery and school. I have been active as a visual artist for more than 30 years. If you like these works please visit my website for more information about my work. Thanks.
website:
www.razzadesign.com
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Gearilla Works
2008-12-24
Gearilla Works is a humorous, but enigmatic reference to a body of work that uses gears as the main design element. They were inspired by the contemporary notion that a machine is behind all that is, that a device or mechanism is turning our world, be it mythical, magical, or simply implied. They are the unmasking of that suggested device.
Yet they are more than that. They are part of the abomination as well. Like King Kong or Frankenstein they remind us that man's spirit is corrupted by an ever curious need to discover something at any expense, to make a monster out of something pure, to exaggerate the common place, to go beyond the surface, dig into the subconscious realm and find the apparatus that lies in the dark recesses of our mind, at the edge of our dreams, and at the edge of night.
They borrow from the Ancient World's mysteries. Like the "Antikythera Mechanism", they lay in wait. Waiting for us to discover their function. But they are devices without function, only the suggestion of it, only cogs that perform for our amusement, only pictures at an exhibition.
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