How many miles to Babylon?
Three score miles and ten
Can I get there by candle-light?
Yes, and back again.
If yur heels are nimble and light.
Your can get there by candle-light.
- Mother Goose
My graphic work consists of appropriation, amalgamation and distortion of psychologically charged imagery transformed through the process of drawing, sketching and doodling, utilizing cheap and easily available forms of reproduction
By creating fantastic and implausible compositions depicted with humor and irreverence, I explore the relationship between spontaneity and contrivance - committing a sort of static vivisection I engage in a continuous game of exquisite corpse solitaire as a way to surprise and beguile the viewer.
Underling themes are monstrosity, ambiguity, metamorphosis and decay – not necessarily in the biological sense of the word, but rather as a radioactive isotope would decay. Themes expressed in these images record a constant, caustic, and ever evolving state - a process and exercise leaving its own detritus behind as visual evidence.
The role we play as participants - passively or not - is giving sentience, perception and ultimately life itself to this evidence; which I believe is the essence and purpose art and creativity performs as a way to explore and reflect this experience.
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Groups (50)
- timothy leary / transhumanism 1740 photos, 350 members
- SWEET STATION 3017 photos, 1252 members
- Willy DeVille Memorial 162 photos, 217 members
- FlickrCentral 2473948 photos, 108895 members
- Surrealismo Conceptual 533 photos, 617 members
- Emergence - Free post 5 photos, 3 members
- incomunidade 202 photos, 378 members
- Between Psychedelic and Pop Art 2137 photos, 233 members
- DETAILED ARTWORK 6372 photos, 1257 members
- Arts- Artes 7195 photos, 681 members
- INVASIVA MAGAZINE 1759 photos, 693 members
- Your Favorite T-Shirt 1379 photos, 1154 members
- Black and White Artwork (Non Photography) 7800 photos, 818 members
- Your Art - Not Photography 204156 photos, 17229 members
- nice&easy 2381 photos, 893 members
- Weird Shit 7255 photos, 817 members
- Ilustração 5096 photos, 413 members
- weird little drawings 1123 photos, 129 members
- Illustration and Graphic Addicts 14255 photos, 1184 members
- Fantômas 835 photos, 165 members
- Experimental Graphic Design 27460 photos, 4359 members
- Not Dark Yet... 790 photos, 259 members
- *The Talking Animal* 333 photos, 87 members
- ARTE CONTEMPORANEA CONTEMPORARY ART 5096 photos, 381 members
- Art of Design 4176 photos, 895 members
- Anti-Imperialist Artists 526 photos, 134 members
- INSECT Collection 1268 photos, 500 members
- dada 9994 photos, 612 members
- Composites 8018 photos, 902 members
- Artist Against Inspirational Drought 2007 photos, 146 members
- PAPERWORKS 139 photos, 309 members
- Horse Art 3306 photos, 880 members
- unlimited madness 1245 photos, 71 members
- WorldWide Artists 5448 photos, 899 members
- House of Illustration 4329 photos, 1445 members
- Twisted Visions 195 photos, 21 members
- Dark Thoughts 7605 photos, 776 members
- Anything Absurd 6256 photos, 454 members
- baz'art 5147 photos, 791 members
- _ Drawings _ 6686 photos, 629 members
- ball point pen 1745 photos, 316 members
- black & white illustration 3166 photos, 486 members
- A Work In Progress 2307 photos, 356 members
- --SOLO ILUSTRACIONES-- 34050 photos, 3711 members
- Doodle Masters 551 photos, 59 members
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Testimonials (7)
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przondzion says:
"Conor, your skill and technique is breathtakingly fabulous. Excellent!!"
25th August, 2008
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falling_apart says:
"Conor's drawing is weird (sometimes I feel I saw them in my dream), intriguing and very sexy. He's not afraid of showing us his unlimited imagination !
You rock, Conor :]"18th August, 2008
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MaA Exhibition XY says:
"Conor's otherworldly images do indeed come to us from over the rainbow With first sight one never wants to go back to Kansas--never, never, never!"
31st March, 2007
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HaggisVitae says:
"There is this delicately creepy and surreal world you can tiptoe into, quietly, because you don’t want these singular, highly-specialized, gossamer creatures to be frightened and run off never to be seen again. These are endangered species that only one man has had the privilege to know intimately.
Conor Ryan graciously allows us all to go on a mutant safari with him and his beings with nipple whips and impossible genitalia, and fine lines, and gorgeous draftsmanship, and breathtaking understatedness (drawing with blue ball-point pen on notebook paper), and the kind of imagination and talent that can only make me say, “ConorRyan, would you someday please come to dinner at my house and sit and talk about politics and right and wrong and fantasy, and your idea of a perfect world and lines and what it means to have this kind of keen artistic vision? PLEASE?” My only wish is that he’d grace us all with more, more, more. I’m a CR addict, I admit this here and now with pride.
PS He is also one of the coolest flicksters and THE most talented, free-form image-tagger I know. **hugsss to you, CR!**"3rd November, 2006
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Devin Neil says:
"original, interesting and good. you don't see work this great very often..."
20th October, 2006
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Gail Orenstein says:
""""Wow-what a wonderful surprise! Conors work is like a travel adventure. The art is very unique-one minute you are in a the very dark contrast that shadows his portraits and the next minute your in a bright beautiful space I think the site is more like a journey. It is one I have enjoyed taking and will continue to come back for the ride. A super image trip!""""
15th September, 2006
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Meta-morphosis says:
"An incredible, imaginative artist , untamed by normal boundaries and constraints...truly insightful."
9th August, 2006
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