Over the last few months, I have had the utter delight and joy to run an event we dubbed the Stony Art Chain Relay. Five chains of artists were formed, the first artist designed a version of Steve and Tony from their imagination, then each art piece was passed to the next artist in the chain to re-draw, re-imagine, or re-design that piece however they wanted, while keeping the core of the character design itself. I can’t believe (actually I can, because Stony artists are amazing) how creative and gorgeous and inspiring and incredible the results are!!
I’ll be making five posts with all six art pieces from a single chain in each one, so you can see the progression. Please visit the artists’ pages and check out their other gorgeous work!
Chain One | Chain Two | Chain Three | Chain Four | Chain Five
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Chain three:
Priya, 15th February
Kriti, 17th February
Vasudha, 22nd February
Ananya, 28th February
Ashish, 4th March
Nidhi, 13th March
Souvik, 26th March
Rashmi, 2nd April
Anmol, 8th April
Espèra, 20th April
For the words, click below:
Photograph 1: Order or Arrange by Priya
Priya flagged off this chain with a colourful picture of three kinds of fruits at a supermarket. She says of this photo (and her word) that “the fruits are arranged according to colour; there is uniformity in the frame”. What a tasty start to chain three!
Photograph 2: Choice by Kriti
Kriti picked up the ideas of ‘food’ and ‘price’ from Priya’s photo, as well as ‘choice’ – and combined them in one that contains all three! It was taken in an Italian restaurant in a small town in Wales, where she dined with her Italian friend, Elisa. She says, “I like to emulate the form of the previous photo as well as the content (or my interpretation of it) in mine, and I was happy with how this one has three divisions – both the menu as well as the photo itself – you can see three women at different tables all dressed in different colours!”
Photograph 3: Decisions by Vasudha
Vasudha turned the burden of choice into the burden of decisions! She interpreted the previous photo as “choice, on offer, decisions etc., out of which decisions seemed most likely” (ahhh close one there! :p) Her photo has a girl faced with making a decision between salt and pepper, those two bare necessities. No wonder she looks so glum.
Photograph 4: Perspective by Ananya
Ananya’s photo made for a very interesting twist in the chain. If you’re wondering how choices or decisions lead to perspective, he says his photo was “a take on how everything is different every day, depending on the way you look at it”. Pretty damn neat.
Photograph 5: Bored by Ashish
Well aren’t we all. Ashish’s ‘artsy’ photo of what we assume are the contents of his desk features a water bottle in the centre. Boredom, he says, is “the natural consequence when you mix thinking, empty stomach and a loooong night of work”. We empathise, and we all need some perspective!
Photograph 6: Water by Nidhi
Nidhi picked up the central feature of Ashish’s photo (although she did think of ‘clutter’ and ‘desktop’ as well) and turned it into a stunningly colourful and whimsical picture – she doesn’t seem to have been bored at all, though probably rather wet. If you’re wondering why she’s being assaulted by copious amounts of water, she says “this was taken on Holi. Both this and the chain 2 photo were clicked by my mum – thanks to CW, my parents are 100% sure their daughter is deranged”. Who else agrees?
Photograph 7: Playing with flying water by Souvik
Flying water! Don’t you just love the idea of that? When asked about how he arrived at this idea, he says, “that was pretty much what a dumb guy like me could make out from the [previous] photo”. We’re not sure why everyone’s calling themselves d-words, but we love this happy photo to bits!
Photograph 8: Public by Rashmi
Rashmi turned the chain away from aquatic themes to focus instead on the people. Her photo was taken at Kempegowda Bus Station, one of Bangalore’s busiest, commonly known as Majestic. Of Souvik’s photo, she says she decided at the last minute that he wasn’t focusing on the bubbles but “was instead leaning on the word people/public. Right?” Well, that might not have been his word but we’re glad Rashmi chose to interpret it that way! Pictures do, after all, speak a thousand words…
Photograph 9: Finding yourself by Anmol
Anmol's picture features a lone man sitting some distance from a long line of people, gazing in their direction. It seems like a take on Rashmi’s public – only this time, it’s more about being the onlooker rather than a participant, on the periphery of the crowd, and discovering who you are when you're not a part of the masses.
Photograph 10: Observing from a distance by Espera
The always-keen-to-experiment Espera took this photo through a pair of binoculars! *applause* She says, “in the photo before mine, the old man seemed to be looking on from a distance, so I thought I’ll do that, except I’ll ACTUALLY look at stuff from a distance!” She rues the uninteresting passers-by and since no one was out on their terraces, “I got an empty terrace instead.”
