Photo painter
MINDAUGAS SIMANKEVIČUS
aka MOON DOOGAS
LIGHT Painting
Using the camera as a paintbrush to catch and dance with light
60,000 Years
A large format visual poem of the effects of our First Fleet thtpigh to the advance of space exploration
Sydney Harbour
A Melbournite’s interpretation of the wonderful Sydney Harbour, its bridge and environs.
POINTILISMUS
Exploring the pixel
GRAPHIC WORKS
How design plays with photoshop and photography
CONCERTINA
The extension of an image and how it can play wondrous tricks to our eye
PANORAMIKA
Wide format landscapes
WOOD
How design plays with photoshop and photography
THE ELEMENTS
Explorations of Earth, Wind, Fire, Water and Spirit
Latest Series:
Televisionry
Taking the found imagery off the street into our loungerooms: our Televisions spew out a ridiculous amount of imagery per second, blink and it’s gone. Coincidence without intent happens quite frequently with images and subtitles, adverts that contain accidental juxtapositions, sporting moments that have incidents of heroic stature, these are the targets of the series “Televisionry”.
CREATIVE DOCUMENTATIONS
Architecture
Sculptors have it over painters in that they have one more dimension to play with. Architects play as god with sculptors and create on a massive scale. Photographers can now put them back in place by capturing the nuances that the arti-techs may not have realised their structures have placed upon the built environment. A bit like paper/scissors/rock this game of art.
people
They are everywhere doing their people thing. Most are scurrying to somewhere that they are only privy to, but some, in the slow-paced environment of the art gallery, perform like actors to the art, to the crowd and in fact become art itself.
COUNTRY
Australia has some of the world’s greatest samples of original forest along with settings of superb magnificence of ancient timbers located in remote settings of billion year land extrusions. Here is an attempt at capturing that ancient impression.
SPORT
Blessed with television’s sports coverage, we get to see sport from all angles. Here I have chosen certain apparitions of these angles from the luxury of an armchair.
“Light! That’s what fascinates me most. Everything we see is light reflecting off a surface, hidden by shadow, transferred by reflection, superimposed over glass that both reflects and allows its passage, and all that light is vibration.”
“Vibration! That’s what fascinates me as much. Everything we hear vibrates to a level our senses can discern. Sound and Light, makes music to my eyes.”
About MINDAUGAS
My sons’ friends couldn’t pronounce my name, they ended up calling me Moon Doogas, I chose that for my avatar on social media. Those pages don’t share too much light on my work, just a glimpse.
I am investigating making new languages with art, using techniques that may be old but never fully realised. I leave the modern methodologies to the new people, happy to stay within my own dimensions.