This is Colossal recently spotlighted an artist’s work that I found an immediate connection to…in some ways it reminded me of my terra cibus series. Artist Mark Lovejoy took something that he looked at each and every day, and reimagined it in a way we’ve never seen before.

The images he creates command us to stop and look at the medium in a new way. It’s interesting how Lovejoy manipulates the paint with other materials, such as resin, to alter the static artwork into feeling like it’s moving or in the middle of a movement.

In Lovejoy’s own words: The pictures are macro photographs of carefully lighted mixes of commercial printing inks. These are not photographs of paintings – no paintings exist. These images are of something as fleeting as any street scene or sunset – illuminated pigments, diluents, extenders, resins, oils, fillers, waxes, drying agents, etc. which, depending upon the mix, have varying miscibilities, viscosities, tacks, surface textures, reflectance, drying times etc., etc. Each original image has been reworked & reshot repeatedly – preserving any given iteration would be to doom all subsequent possibilities yet each new iteration also consigns all previous iterations to oblivion – the photographic record is all that remains.

In addition to fine art prints, envisions these images used for fabrics & fashion accessories . He is currently developing a line of fashion scarves under the brand "Love Your Scarf," which are available now in his Etsy store.

You can read more about artist Mark Lovejoy at the following links:

www.marklovejoy.com

http://marklovejoydotcom.tumblr.com/

https://www.etsy.com/shop/Loveyourscarf