80 portraits around the Art World / Ettore Bossi

This project is about the people of our time, working in our time, in the international art scene.
I am using the randomness of social technology , suggestions and common contacts, to choose and contact muses for the project,
Utiising the internet filiming / medistisation/ projection ,
to paint
an analogue portrait of what is essentially a digital projection,
 which I am recieving form the screen,
live,
or as good as live is,
 or as relevant as live is now a days.

And yet this technology affects the colours I see, the picture I am taking and the conversation I am having, too loud, too quiet , delayed or even fragmented.

I mean the whole thing crashed tonight, the phones run out of electricity , his skype did not work so we used facebook measanger video, which did not work in my computer,  which in turn forced me to paint him from the smallest possible image from the phone, and  I could not hear him until I added ear plugs , as if I was painting a tiny dwarf with a appropriate size volume.

The technology affects the expirence, sonically, visually changing colors, and time wise, there is a lot of time lost in all the technological trying to synchronise, meet, adjust to one another,  every time I paint using the internet.

But it also cuts the time of going somewhere, having to tidy my studio, provide enough vine or food for muse . You just turn on, fidget for ages, talk paint and are over.


Now that the technological part is over, I 'd like to say it was a genuinely interesting expirience painting Ettore.
Your essentially buying a cat in the bag, when approaching unknown people to pose for a portrait, right?
Well we got on quite well. There is a lot a painter can learn from the muse, about the muse, and useful technical knowledge. I had no idea for example that in the 50s, they used to glue paper paintings on to canvass to make them last longer and be durable. I know that the framers Lorcan o neil gallery used in Rome and who became the framers who  framed my work most, glued my huge paper works to canvassed and it looked pretty good.
Perhaps I should find out how do to it, for I love painting on paper .

Ther whree many themes, around art I enjoyed deicussing,  looking forwards to the next session, and drawing Ettores Eyes and nose.