Sunday, 23 December 2012

Acrylic Gel Lift


I loved making acrylic gel lifts, so much that I actually made four, but I like this one the best. This is my acrylic gel lift of the Temple of the Golden Pavilion in Kyoto, Japan. This was taken 5 years ago on a family vacation to Japan and Vietnam. This land belonged to a powerful statesman, and when he died a Buddhist temple was erected there by his son. During the Onin war, it was burnt down and rebuilt later. Many claim that it was built an exact replica, but historians doubt that the old one was plated in gold like this one is today. I chose this picture because I remember when we visited there, the whole scene looked just like a postcard. It was so exquisite it didn't even seem real. I wanted to capture that delicate beauty and I thought an acrylic lift would do that. Though it replicates the exact photo, it looks more dreamlike and ghostly, and a bit transparent. Like the temple itself was replicated, I replicated the photo but with a bit of embellishment.

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