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\"Sinew

Sinew 16, 1992, bodypaint and photo by Fred Hatt<\/p><\/div>\n

One of my reasons for starting this blog was to give a new life to some work from my extensive and diverse back catalog.\u00a0 So let’s get started.<\/p>\n

In the early 90’s I was working towards a fresh approach in my art.\u00a0 I’d done abstract painting, figurative drawing, experimental film, and performance art.\u00a0 To me it was all just my artwork, but others saw these as completely separate fields.\u00a0 I was looking for ways to integrate all of it.\u00a0 Thematically, the art that inspired me was mostly either religious art or erotic art, or the art associated with magical philosophies like alchemy or tantra.\u00a0 I wanted to integrate the subject matter as well.\u00a0 Since the late 1980’s I’d been experimenting with approaches to art associated with prehistoric and “primitive” cultures, as these seemed to reflect a conception of artistic creation as a central experience in a unified magical world-view.<\/p>\n

In 1989 I attended an all-night experiential performance piece called Journey to Lila<\/em> by famed Bay Area provocateur Frank Moore<\/a>, at Franklin Furnace<\/a> in New York.\u00a0 I’ll save a fuller description of that night for another post, but the essential is that it was not so much a “performance” as most of us would imagine it, but an initiatory journey, in which the audience was gently but persistently opened to new and mind-liberating experiences.\u00a0 Frank’s work showed me that, even in the modern world, magical transformation could be the method, not just the subject matter, of art.<\/p>\n

I had previously played a little with body painting, but now I was inspired to develop it as an art form.\u00a0 I started asking people I knew if they wanted to get painted.\u00a0 One of the early volunteers, seen in these pictures from January, 1992, was my friend Ed.<\/p>\n

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Sinew 17, 1992, bodypaint and photo by Fred Hatt<\/p><\/div>\n

In those days I was using liquid tempera poster paint.\u00a0 It’s very cheap and non-toxic.\u00a0 The experience of being painted with it is slimy, cold wetness, followed, as it dries and flakes, by a tight, scaly and itchy sensation all over the skin.\u00a0 It isn’t exactly pleasurable, but it proved to be effective in inspiring those who experienced it to feel thoroughly transformed.<\/p>\n

\"Sinew

Sinew 18, 1992, bodypaint and photo by Fred Hatt<\/p><\/div>\n

The backdrop was a roll of white seamless paper I’d previously used as a dropcloth for earlier bodypainting sessions.\u00a0 The vertical part of the seamless had been painted by Jen, another artist friend and bodypaint participant, with the same tempera poster paint we used on the bodies.<\/p>\n

I never designed or preconceived these paintings.\u00a0 They were just spontaneous happenings.\u00a0 But painting on someone is a collaborative process that is unavoidably affected by the quality of the moment and the interaction of painter and paintee.\u00a0 The brush flows around the hills and valleys of the body, and thus something emerges that reveals both form and underlying energy.<\/p>\n

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Sinew 23, 1992, bodypaint and photo by Fred Hatt<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Sinew

Sinew 26, 1992, bodypaint and photo by Fred Hatt<\/p><\/div>\n

Bodypainting took on a life of its own for me.\u00a0 Whenever I would show this work (in the 90’s it was usually as a slide show), someone would come up to me and volunteer to be painted.\u00a0 So of course this became a major part of my work and grew many unforeseen branches over the years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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