Giselle Mira Diaz

Toronto based Photographer and Visual Artist

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Packing for Colombia #packing #gifts #summer #travel #Colombia

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Self portrait on a bus shelter !!! :) Kipling and norseman

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#powerplant #Panamanian #Toronto2015 (at Harbourfront Centre)

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#powerplant #Panamanian #Toronto2015

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This is spring in Canada....I want to go to South America already!!! Only one week :) #spring #Canadaspring #springsnow #Aprilsnow #Toronto2015 #Toronto #Wtf

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Thinking of colombia in Toronto #Colombia #winter #Toronto #subway #subwayad #ttc #Bathurst

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self portrait -giselle 

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with amazing people teenagewrist

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Max patch for tomorrows interactive performance :) #performance #art #max patch #max6 #computerprogram #interactive #interactiveart #videoperformance

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#ice #Toronto_insta #March #torontomelt #spring

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NS Photo Exchange Show

https://gallery44.org/exhibitions/NSPhoto

Save the date July 17, 6pm At gallery 44. The opening for our North South Photo exchange Project. My work along with 11 other talented Argentinean and Toronto artist will have a show there.  Hope to see you all!!!

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"Some men will want to hold you like the answer"

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Filming footage for my next Performance...I'm a one woman show #studio #camera #solo

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A colourful book

I encountered this Dutch book from 1692 in a French database today and it turns out to be quite special. For one thing, no Dutch scholar appears to have published on it, or even to know about it. Moreover, the object is special because it provides an unusual peek into the workshop of 17th-century painters and illustrators. In over 700 pages of handwritten Dutch, the author, who identifies himself as A. Boogert (Pic 2), describes how to make watercolour paints. He explains how to mix the colours and how to change their tone by adding “one, two or three portions of water”. To illustrate his point he fills each facing page with various shades of the colour in question (lower image). To top it he made an index of all the colours he described, which in itself is a feast to look at (Pics 1 and 3). In the 17th century, an age known as the Golden Age of Dutch Painting, this manual would have hit the right spot. It makes sense, then, that the author explains in the introduction that he wrote the book for educational purposes. Remarkably, because the manual is written by hand and therefore literally one of a kind, it did not get the “reach” among painters - or attention among modern art historians - it deserves.

Pic: Aix-en-Provence, Bibliothèque municipale/Bibliothèque Méjanes, MS 1389 (1228). Luckily, the entire book can be viewed here, in hi-res, zoomable images. Here is a description of the book.

Full disclosure (6 May, 2014): While this colourful book is first presented to a larger audience in this post and there are no Dutch publications devoted to it, I have since posting discovered that it is known by at least one other Dutch scholar. It is currently being studied and will be included in a PhD study to be completed in 2015 at the University of Amsterdam. While it is great that blogs such as The Colossal (here) and Gizmodo (here) have picked it up, it is important to know that I was not the one “discovering” the manuscript. I merely put it on the bigger podium it deserves, via this blog.

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Lungs-decay

(Lungs-Decay, Digital Photography, Performance and Body Painting, 8 images 8x10, 2014) This work represents the idea of mortality and the process of decay. After her mother’s a serious illness Giselle was inspired to illustrate on her own body the transformation of an organ decaying. The eight images are to be viewed side by side to notice the change in color, texture and method of painting. 

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Sacha Goldberger Super Mamika - Interview