Crocodile Mask Figure: paper art print
paper art print
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Crocodile Mask Figure: drawing and available formats
Looking at the image
A crocodile mask makes the profile long and toothed. Patterned clothing continues the contrast between human torso and animal face.
Traces of drawing, encounters between colors and individual character are central to İlker Ortaç’s portraits and figures. The image can be approached through the way a face or body is constructed, as well as through whom it represents.
From life to creative practice
İlker Ortaç does not reduce his experience of disability to a story inviting pity or applause. How bodies are seen, who is excluded and who defines normality are central questions in his artist statement.
From making to presentation
- Image source: the drawing is presented through the existing portfolio image or original-artwork record.
- Form: color, line, gaze and framing are explored in the visual notes on this page.
- Presentation: matching files, prints or objects are shown through separate product guides.
From the studio: a creative reconstruction
A first-person creative reconstruction drawing on the biography and artworks.
I imagine removing the invisible ruler that tells a body where it should begin and end. A shoulder, a beard and an item of clothing should not have to agree. I enlarge their encounter, then leave it somewhere the gaze cannot immediately escape.
Working around Crocodile Mask Figure, my attention returns to this detail: A crocodile mask makes the profile long and toothed. Patterned clothing continues the contrast between human torso and animal face. In the next passage, I imagine pulling back anything that weakens that encounter and leaving the areas holding its tension open for longer.
I want to consider the work from a distance for a while, then return to the same small detail. Imagining its different formats side by side, I try to keep the trace that stopped me in the first place.
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Crocodile Mask Figure: digital artwork download
digital artwork download
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Formats observed for this design: digital artwork download, paper art print. Digital files, paper reproductions and physical objects are different products. Choose the image first, then the way you want to use it. Printed area and cropping may change between surfaces.