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Published: 2007-03-30 23:03:34 +0000 UTC; Views: 1060; Favourites: 34; Downloads: 20
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Oil on masonite panel.This is a bit on the cutesy for my taste, but my wife likes it. So here it is. My dad named it. (combo jeff and giraffe)
It's another old one, but I should be posting brand new stuff in the very near future. Soon as I run out of old stuff. Or at least until I can't find anything I would show.
Also check out the work of my best friend Mark (arum) Masters [link] He's AMAZING !
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My brain isn't sure whether or not it should focus on the giraffe or on the face.
Nice work.
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Thank you very much. And thanks for the favs. You are really too kind.
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Thank you for sharing
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Thank you very much, and thanks for the fav.
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Thank you very much. I glad you like it. And also, thank you for the fav.
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I feel a little dumb, I didn't even notice the face for a bit I was so busy staring at the Jaffe. Love this!
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Hahahahaha Don't feel dumb, most people don't see it at first. Thanks again.
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i could stay in yours and your best friends gallery for days
*plops down with 
Im glad your wife pushed for this one!
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Cool stuff as always.
I always love your textures... such a smoothness to your work.
Look forward to the new work!!!!!
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Thanks, I'll start posting new stuff in a week or two.
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Nice use of negative space, and a very creative name. I like the rocks--they look like a nautilus, or a snail shell, or even small caves. Surrealism at its finest.
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so much fun! (he has a problem with is knee)
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Thanks, yeah, I tried to straighten it out, but then he couldn't walk right.
And thanks for the fav.
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i have know several who had a "trick knee"
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"Cutesy??"..."CUTESY???!" This is NOT "cutesy!!" This is awesome!! I love the dimensions and the image play -- something that I just don't have a knack for but, would love to try again.
I love this! You're on crack..."cutesy." Ya killin' me!!!
Favs.
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It's just something I saw in the barnyard.
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Aaah, so THAT'S where you got the inspiration for "Whore." *nodding* Uh huh...uh huh...
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Who let the fuit loops on here? Don't they have a screening process?
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That's cocoa puffs to you, Mister!! *gets the paper towels*
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More like coo coo puffs. And I'm not afraid of you generic paper towels !
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i love this... i think the mountains/mouth and the tree branches / hair are my favorite parts though me giraffee is awesome too... and theres nothing wrong with cutesy
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Hahaha Thank you very much, and thank you for the fav as well.
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Wow, I love that only one leg is coily. Nice work, though I agree that it's a tad cutesy.
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Thank you very much. Yeah, if I ever write a children's book......
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Did you know that the human face is the first thing we are humans are able to reconize. That's why I love pictures with hidden, or not so hidden faces, because the mind knows that it isn't a human face, but it wants it to be because it is the most familure thing to it. We try to make order out of chaos
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Actually, I never even thought about the human face like that. Something to keep in mind though. I feel like "making order out of chaos" is what surreal art is about. I could be wrong about that, but that's how I approach it.
Thank you very much for the comment. You're awesome.
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Will you stop making me think?! I only a have a few free frictating neurouns at the moment and now they're on overdrive. Here let me share.
In this piece the first thing I noticed was the face of the giraffe then as I travelled around the painting a bit I began to notice other things trees grass funky knees mountains then the face when I stepped back and looked at it again. It was only after staring at the eyes of the face for a bit that I noticed the mouth and only recently percieved that the clouds look rather like hair.
Then I read the above comment and began to wonder if order is being made out of chaos or chaos out of order? For example we are familiar with the face but I for one am not familiar with a face appearing in a cloud formation and being framed by a tree and a giraffe. My mind immediately saw the simple and categorised it and only after feeling that sense of something not quite right and the consequent second look did I begin to pick up on the really neat things you did.
I suppose this says more about my mind than your wonderful bit of work here but I though I would share my thoughts.
Well done!
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WHAT ? There's a face in my picture ? ! ? lol
Thanks man. Your thoughts are always welcome. I enjoy them greatly.
My opinion on the order/chaos thing is that chaos is a complicated form of organization. Example: Let's say you have a line of marbles. Five white then five black. They would still be orderly if it were one white, one black, one white ect. But it's a more complex organization. A bit like mathmatical pie. It seems chaotic, but the string of numbers are always the same. They don't repeat, but are always the same.
There I go on another rant. Sorry.
Thank you very much for your comment.
Your friend, Jeff
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Yeah, the mind fascinates me, that is why I like surreal so much, because it is all about the mind.
Thank you!
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