Aurora in Silica No.19

Aurora in Silica No.19Artwork Info About the Artist About Aurora in Silica 2017 Pigment print on archival paper Signed, titled, dated, and editioned, by artist, au verso Edition of 7 + 1 AP Unframed Chris Thomaidis (b. 1953, Kastoria region, Greece) is a photographer based in Toronto, Canada. Self taught, he learned from his first mentor, a painter, that what you exclude from an image is as important as what you include. This teaching has influenced his approach to

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who was interested in acquiring photographs

he resided at Stonewall (perhaps to be near his widowed sister and widowed mother who lived on a farm in the RM of Rockwood) then at Winnipeg from 1891 to 1894

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Wynne Getting Changed

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He then used these sketches to construct meticulous plaster models which he lit dramatically in order to take photographs that mimicked the effect of the sun as observed through the viewfinder of his telescope

New Year’s Day 1966

in every art that I’ve created

Inspired by Cumming’s Karaoke