Shroud of Turin - Self portrait Study

Feinin; A study of illusion and reality, parody, humour and humanity

Here in this superimposition, I find myself faced with a certain truth but also a lie. Beneath this shroud there is a leper, a man cased off, wrapped in linen and preserved. It came to no surprise, a hoax. Alone, mastermind, cure, redundant, tremble

Saints - Mug Shot Studies

Mug Shot 1- Piero Della Francesca

The human spirit projecting the remorse and power of forgiveness captured during a series of Mug Shots.

Rejoice! Jesus Has Risen

Mug Shot 1


Mug Shot 2


Specimens

Continuing with the study of the Mug Shot, these three compositions gives a canny likeness to the resurrection of Jesus through the very perception he is believed to look like. There is no doubt that many individuals who are rooming the jails as with these subjects, their heart and remorse are at hand.

Mug Shot Art for Detail Magazine

Mug Shot 1


Mug Shot 2 - Beauty in the eye of the beholder


Mug Shot 3 - A tribute to Andy Warhol

These stills and collages are actually mug shots of individuals who have been arrested. The study places the emphasis on the beauty of the subject and his composure whether he at the moment of being photograph realizes it or not. It also explains the sense of street style which fashion designers are eager to duplicate and thus spread between the covers of a fashion magazine. See the second series of mug compositions

kanye West outdoes Jeff Koons

Why collect contemporary art when I can manufacture it myself


Scanning imaging clay model technology projects a composite mold of kanye West

The American rapper kanye West has focused his attention on producing a fabrication of himself using a photographic device that can mold the entire body by the process of scanning. The computer generated image can simulate the likeness of the subject as it passes over the contour of the model. The results is art in itself, more poetic then Jeff Koons' Micheal Jackson statue. These photographic compositions are likely to set the boundaries of the art of the self with the art of technology.


kanye West holograms himself in clay is far better than Damien Hirst's medical cabinet

West should toy further with the idea of erotic imagery with whoever or whoever he desires, or that of self masturbation. Madonna would be deeply pissed. Nevertheless, it has been done before in its primitive colour photographic genre by his predecessor Jeff Koon having sex with his wife, Ilona Staller, but West wins over with the photographic concept that places himself in the position of mortality and leads him straight into the Museum of Modern Art. What possibilities for the future.....

FACEBOOK - Wonders never cease

Because I want to exist. Because I am part of the global community. Because willingly I want people to know all about me. Because I know people like to spy.

Facebook - I know everything about you without lifting a finger. I see my dream of being God, I know what is needed to fulfill my wants of global domination.......

Murmurs of Earth - The Blueprint of Mankind

The mystery remains, the cosmos is a gateway if we allow ourselves to think the possible, I say this for future generations solely in awe of life...


The Voyager space craft's Golden Record

This diagram is the given instructions to operate a disk called the Voyager Golden Record which was launched with the Voyager spacecraft in 1977. It contains visuals and sounds to portray the types of life and culture on Earth. Such a device would probably be laugh at or destroyed if it was found in hands of other life more or less intelligent then ourselves. As with the cave painting discoveries in France, the pictogram is an example that art or the act of drawing geometric symbols is the key to all life, etched here on this golden disk. The statement below was part of the intergalactic journey of the American Voyager spacecraft.

If one such civilization intercepts Voyager and can understand these recorded content, here is our message: This is a present from a small distant world, a token of our sounds, our science, our images, our music, our thoughts and feelings. We are attempting to survive time so we me live into yours. We hope someday to solve the problems we face to join a community of galactic civilization. The record represents our hope and our determination, and our good will in a vast and awesome universe. - Jimmy Carter, June, 1976


A plaque placed on board Pioneer 10 in 1972 and Pioneer 11 spacecraft in 1973. "Hey white woman stand up straight"

It would have been more practical as a self generated device encased in a indestructible sphere. As you shook it to see what it was, the motion would generate power and trigger on a holographic image. The audio should be samples be our heart beat, nevertheless the following montage is an example of what we look like to the outside world. Who knows, the aliens we are in search of may derive from ourself millions of light years ahead. The universal elements of life; Magnetics, electricity, fibonacci spiral, light, magenta, cyan and yellow.

In a dream, I remember seeing the vision of the statue of David as an epoch to the end of the World. Somehow the Sun had died and this was a reminder that only art survives the test of time.




A montage of the pinnacle individuals that left their mark in history on this planet, earth. We will be remembered in a vast universe that we accounted for something, fractions of light if so be......We have already passed

The compilation in the following order; largest bomb ever tested, the Tsar, the bombshell, Josephine Baker, Metropolis, LL Cool J's fly girls, Nadia Comaneci, Diego Maradona, Muhammad Ali, break dancing, Rudolf Nureyev, Pablo Picasso, first television felix the cat, Jesse Owens, Aboriginals dancing, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Marlon Brando, Bruce lee, Albert Einstein, character, Who shot J.R. Ewing, Tank man, Bugsbunny, Martin Luther King, Coco Chanel, Marilyn Monroe, Y2 rocket, the beloved Laika, Apollo 11, Michelangelo David and finally, an aboriginal from Australia. The sound track taken from the radio sounds detected during the Voyager bypass of Jupiter's magnetic field.

King of conceptual art - Francisco Cabral 1980s

For instance, if you want to take this tri... triptych right


Francisco Cabral's chair at the National Museum of Trinidad and Tobago. The work incorporates a panoramic view of what is believed to be a fort

This captured television clip of Francisco Cabral gives a glimpse over the meaning and conceptual backing of his sculptural work. Cabral is considered to be one of the most revered artist from the 1980s. He is noted for his construction of steel high chairs, and his work is part of the permanent collection of the National Museum of Trinidad and Tobago. His chairs speaks of leisure, privilege and restrain on these sunny Caribbean islands.

In the interview, he describes one of his works, Coffin kite as to neutralize the polarizing factions to what constitutes Indian, African art and more relevant, Trinidad art. In Coffin kite, a skeleton is placed in a coffin using machine cogs to form its structure, he also conglomerates the social classes by using cultural elements in it, but separates his own ethnicity by giving a generalization to whose sociological grouping this particular work should be placed. He says its African because it carries that aesthetic value in it.

If you read more into this, he is really leading the Christians to the lion's den stressing that machines can never replace the image of man himself. " We have go off on a technology race, and has neglected man who is a completely human being. He is total, he has so much more to explore within himself as an individual that being neglected all because technology is used as a measure of man' development which it totally incorrect, it is external, it really has nothing to do with man.". No other artist since then has had that this level of conceptual incite.



A short clip of Francisco Cabral on Banyan television

Leiles kicks ass in Port of Spain

A purported Italian Leiles sprays up the capital, Trinidad, West Indies

This is one of the many works by a street graffiti artist who goes by the name, Leiles. The bubble gum typography means something, but to the layman on the street, the lettering is hard to decipher. Leiles may be sending a message to other local graffiti artists that this is the way in the professional graffiti world in technique and in speed. Unlike Louse's heaver renditions, Leiles has marked his territory with brightly coloured tones which are clean and his prolific aim to show what he can do in and about Port of Spain. He has also placed himself at the centre of a series of works done by Clinton Anthony Cummings. Clinton is one of the local street artists whose work has substance.


Leiles in Port of Spain, Trinidad

Addendum: A comment has clarified somewhat the spree of iconography by an graffiti artist tagged as HOWOK. The artist has spent a couple years between France and Italy and the sub- signature leiles is actually the name of his girl friend. Case closed.

Haile Selassie I in St. James

Copyright © 2009 Richard Bolai

This wall painting was a pleasant surprise located in an abandon lot in St. James, Trinidad and Tobago. It shows the quantity of materials used in the artist's desire to depict Haile Selassie centered between bands of colour which represents the figure known as the Rastafari Messiah. Plenty paint boy


A detail of the work that shows great care, St. James Trinidad, West Indies

Architectural beauty at Patraj Roti Shop

Copyright © 2009 Richard Bolai
Patraj Roti Shop at Tragarete Road, Woodbrook, Trinidad, West Indies

This is the shell of the once popular Patraj Roti Shop which in 2008 was destroyed by fire. The archway led you a row of tables and just left of it there was the casher and a queue of people who would wait forty five minutes to be served. In some way it is a reminder that you can’t hold on to things, and that experiences are to be enjoyed in the present no matter its circumstances. Everyting, slight, wet and plenty chicken

Slight - The degree of pepper to be added to the roti
Wet - The amount of curry to be added to the wrap

Church of Magnificence

Copyright © 2009 Richard Bolai
A evangelical church build without fanfare, Trinidad West Indies

It is by all means a masterwork of architecture that graces a part of Diego Martin, Trinidad and Tobago. The building reflects the aesthetic beauty found in no other part of the hemisphere. It is a national icon and an architectural feat that places it as the tenth wonder of the world peeking way over the Great Wall of China and the Taj Mahal. At the 2009, the International Society of Civil Engineers debated over its construction and hailed it as a marvel of perfection. Bringing those four walls together took a measure of precision and by a work force that was estimated to be in the tens of thousands. Scores of site seekers have flocked to see it.


A wrought iron gates with the words, Church of God embedding in its frame. It is the most ornate part of the structure.

This church was completed with the help of an evangelical mission who were seen on the site during its construction. This may be its final appearance, but more likely it is the inside that truly counts for those early Sundays come rain or shine. No attempt is made to debate over its functionality thus preventing otherwise the faithful from being exposed God's natural elements while sitting in a tent.