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Gini
Creating Freedom, 2015
Digital photograph 17” x 28” $400 Website: http://www.disabilityartsonline.org.uk/Gini England Image by Gini VO by Mari Weiss |
From Gini’s poem Ode to Wheels:
“I arrive my wheels, I arrive
with a keen anticipation
to be rescued from the primitive
to our shared configuration
Oh my wheels I am handicapped
until we are one and we fly.”
“I arrive my wheels, I arrive
with a keen anticipation
to be rescued from the primitive
to our shared configuration
Oh my wheels I am handicapped
until we are one and we fly.”
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Wheelborne Venus, 2015
Digital photograph 14” x 18” $400 Image by Gini VO by Mari Weiss |
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DESCRIPTIONS:
"Creating Freedom is a digitally manipulated version of Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel painting, Creating Adam. Gini altered the painting to include a wheelchair and 2 crutches.
In the original painting God floats above on our right. He is an old white man with flowing white hair and beard, surrounded by muscular angels. He is draped in fabric and extends his right arm and hand out towards Adam. To God’s left lies Adam, a young muscular white man dressed in only a fig leaf. He lies on the ground and stretches his left arm out towards God’s hand. Their fingers almost touch.
In Gini’s version of this famous painting, God is seated in a wheelchair with wings on its front wheels and hands Adam a crutch. A second crutch floats conveniently near Adam’s fig leaf.
Wheelborne Venus is a digitally manipulated version of Sandro Botticelli's painting The Birth of Venus. Gini altered the image to include a winged wheelchair.
In the original painting Venus rises from the sea on a huge half clam shell. She is young, white and nude with flowing golden hair draped around her. To our right is a handmaiden draped in floral fabrics, holding red floral draperies out to Venus. To her left two winged figures, male and female, are entwined. They are draped in capes and their mouths are puckered in a blowing position. In Gini’s version, the open clam shell becomes Venus’ winged wheelchair." -A. Laura Brody
In the original painting God floats above on our right. He is an old white man with flowing white hair and beard, surrounded by muscular angels. He is draped in fabric and extends his right arm and hand out towards Adam. To God’s left lies Adam, a young muscular white man dressed in only a fig leaf. He lies on the ground and stretches his left arm out towards God’s hand. Their fingers almost touch.
In Gini’s version of this famous painting, God is seated in a wheelchair with wings on its front wheels and hands Adam a crutch. A second crutch floats conveniently near Adam’s fig leaf.
Wheelborne Venus is a digitally manipulated version of Sandro Botticelli's painting The Birth of Venus. Gini altered the image to include a winged wheelchair.
In the original painting Venus rises from the sea on a huge half clam shell. She is young, white and nude with flowing golden hair draped around her. To our right is a handmaiden draped in floral fabrics, holding red floral draperies out to Venus. To her left two winged figures, male and female, are entwined. They are draped in capes and their mouths are puckered in a blowing position. In Gini’s version, the open clam shell becomes Venus’ winged wheelchair." -A. Laura Brody
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