Category: The Art of Barbara Agreste
Taking back my castle
I looked outside, I imitated styles, I was reproached when I showed the wonder of my real fantastic imagination, I was told to do squares and triangles, to follow an art current, to be a number. I started to lose that interior light, I forgot…
The die is cast
This time I was able to do what really was in my mind, having discovered technically how to make sure that my oil pastels would imprint themselves into the canvas (smaller size watercolor paper) in a way in which they could dry, and be secured beneath a shiny layer of transparent acrylic medium.
Reptilica
Reptilica is partly animation and partly a film where real people perform. It Starts with a doll which is animated with the stop motion technique, she is searching through the many dry leaves that rest on the floor, something she has seen or felt passing by…
Cyanide
My film Cyanide has had a peculiar beginning. It originated from a period of my life of extreme depression, and uncertainty, and it was an action I was performing every day that made me think about developing the more predominant images of this film…