About raptnrent: I got the name from my keys - R Apt and R Ent for the back door to my apartment and the back door to the house. I liked that they were also words: Rapt, meaning enthralled, riveted, captivated, and Rent, meaning torn asunder, violently wrenched. I thought it made for an interesting juxtaposition, open to all kinds of interpretations.
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“his wisdom must walk hand and hand with his idiocy”
I added some earth tones, which may make the image look more dirty than aged, but perhaps it will work either way. I also worked in the Statue of Liberty silhouette, taken from the closing scene of The Planet of … Continue reading
Working towards the Quarter Millennium
In honor of the Semiquincentennial, the Bisesquicentennial, the Sestercentennial, or the Quarter Millennium, I thought I’d try to do a visual mashup of The New Colossus and Ozymandias. I fully expect this not to work, but maybe I will learn … Continue reading