The Face of The South
The Oxford American Magazine's new Web Extras installment, THE FRESH EYE OF HENRYK FANTAZOS, prompts us to do two things:
Show off Lucky Dog Audio new media work.
Post a picture of a painting called "Okra Smugglers."
Produced here at Lucky Dog Audio Post, the "Face of the South" slideshow features one of our eerier pieces of custom music. We recorded an electric guitar and a bowed upright bass and then dropped the mix into an IXI slicer to create the ambient sounds that accompany Henryk Fantazos's surreal southern paintings.
Fantazos is a fascinating painter. For the most part, the images in the slideshow address rural settings in a painterly style desribed as “Proto-Renaissance.” Originally from Poland, Fantazos "painted his way out of Poland, to France, to Germany, then to New York City as a Fellow in the Kosciuszko Foundation." After moving to Hillsborough, North Carolina, Fantazos "announced he would paint the 'Face of the South,' a face he saw disappearing."
Click here to view the slideshow.
