Nurmi Husa

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Artist	Nurmi Husa
Gender	Male
Status	Varied artist
City	Vancouver, Washington
Country	United-States
Site	http://www.nurmihusa.co.nr

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WHAT I DO
Digital art. Ugh. How cold and hideously technical?! My work is anything but THAT. What I do is very painterly, shamelessly so, but I don’t paint in any traditional sense. Heavens no. It’s my computer that’s my brush, my oils, my canvas, my lover. Yet because I work with a computer, I’m shackled with that horrible term “digital art”. Please, oh please, can we come up with another? "GiclŽe" was fun while it lasted, but it’s developed such an unsavory odor of late. E-art? As in e-mail or e-ddress? Not an improvement, nope. I’m utterly flummoxed. You have any brilliant ideas? Oi!

HOW I DO IT
I start with a digital photograph, adding and subtracting bits of image, interweaving and manipulating it all in Adobe Photoshop. Integral to my process is a rich texturing expropriated from a variety of natural and man-made sources. I love "artefact"! When I'm finally willing to stop belaboring the poor wee beastie, I commit it to print in a numbered edition with an Epson 2200 - using their archival papers and ink.

WHY I DO IT
Although I come to the making of purely visual art after many years as an actor, activist, writer and graphic artist - I have always celebrated the visual of many different centuries and cultures. Most of my inspirational cravings are best satisfied at the vast and extraordinary banquet plated up by those fabulous nineteenth century European artists. But my inspiration ain’t limited to that magnificently overwrought era so like our own. The Old Master, the Surrealist, the Constructivist, the Symbolist - as well as that dreaded creature, the Academician, all cheerfully jostle about informing my work. Yes, I revel in texture and strong images. Words are often worked into my "canvases". My palette is dark, in color as well as subject matter, but I'm not without humor. And as always, the subtlety of expression of which the human face is capable always moves me (hence my portrait work).

On the whole, I like an image that asks a question, tells a story, slaps you upside the head or sometimes - horror of horrors - jes' looks real purty right there up on the wall.