Philly-Bob’s Museum Images Applying my digital techniques to images I take with my camera at museums.

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Artist's Statement
I like to go to big-time museums and take photographs of the exhibits, then apply my digital techniques to them.

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Face on Funerary Urn


Detail of another Zapotec deity decorating a funerary urn, from Oaxaca, probably pre-conquest.
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Syrian Tile


From the 16th Century, some tiles from Syria during the long Ottoman period. Love that blue.
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Zapotec Funerary Urn


From the Mexican area of Oaxaca in the Southern Highlands, a deity carved on a ceramic cylinder used in funeral ceremonies, from about the 5th Century.
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Door Panel


Also from the Met, a digital rendering of a section from a carved wooden door panel from Uzbekistan. The panel dates from the late 15th Century. The digital recoloring here is extreme -- you can barely see the seams of the Cypress strips that make up the panel or the repair in the lower left quadrant in which a broken strip was apparently stitched back together with glue and cord.
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Garden Carpet


From New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, digital manipulation of a section of what is called a "Garden Carpet," a long woven carpet from Northwestern Iran or Kurdistan. The carpet's pattern is derived from plan for a typical residential garden. This example dates from about 1800. Extreme distortion of pattern and color.
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Pierced Marble


From New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, a section of a carved window screen from 17th century India during the Mughal era.
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