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ELISA's Interests
General
SOME OF MY ARTWORK
THE PINK DRESS
a movie by Elisa Terranova
Movies
THE BAD SEED, FREAKS, GRINDHOUSE>PLANET TERROR, DEATH PROOF, JOHNNY GOT HIS GUN, FRIDA, THE PIANO, THE SHINING, PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (2004), JEAN COCTEAU'S BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, THE HOURS, EVIL DEAD, THE SEVENTH SEAL, MAGNOLIA, PULP FICTION, AMELIE, SILENCE OF THE LAMBS, SPLENDOR IN THE GRASS, BARFLY, ERASERHEAD, ALL ABOUT EVE, BRAMSTOKER'S DRACULA, DONNIE DARKO, THE CELL (DREAM SEQUENCES), MEMENTO, FARGO, BUTTERFLY EFFECT, BLOOD SIMPLE, MILDRED PIERCE, OLD SINBAD MOVIES, DAVID LYNCH, JOHN WATERS, PETER GREENAWAY, TARANTINO, OLD CLASSICS AND VINTAGE SCI-FI, GOTHIC ROMANCE...
SIX FEET UNDER, news, movies and more movies, and the occasional cheesey reality show.
Books
Most memorable stuff I've read:
Frankenstein, Woman In The Dunes, The Little prince, Geek Love, 1984, Brave New World, Lord Of The Flies, "Freaks, Geeks And Strange Girls", Invisibe Man, I Know Why The caged Bird Sings, Frida, Da Vinci Code, Angels And Demons, Catch 22, The Great Gatsby, "Burning In Water, Drowning In Flame", Zen And The Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance, beat poets, Bukowski, Burroughs, Edgar Allen poe, Sylvia Plath, Ai, Dr. Seuss, Dickens, A Seperate Reality, Alice In Wonderland, Savages, Ulysses, Billy Budd, Great old classics: The Scarlet Letter, Of Human Bondage, Wuthering Heights, The Yearling, The Secret Garden, ....biographies on artits and wierd people, a little Shakespeare, The Bible, tons of art history...
Arizona State University-Main Campus
Tempe, ARIZONA
Graduated: 1993
Student status: Alumni
Degree: Master's Degree
Major: FINE ARTS
Clubs: Society Of Medical Anomalies
On Nov 2 1980, I got the holy shit kicked out of me when my car hit a train. After emerging from a coma, I had to face certain facts....my face was ravaged from the collision, my hands and body were permanently paralyzed and I would face a lifetime of countless surgeries, isolation and pain. And so, I did the only thing I could....I embraced my destiny as a gimp and became an artist.
I created A VISUAL DIARYthat documented my new life as a gimp, and my painting turned obsessively to self-portraits. Visually, I glorified my role as the heroic martyr, faithfully recording my experiences on canvas.
My passion is Art History, especially the religious and expressive iconography of the Great Masters from the Renaissance to sixteenth and seventeenth century Mannerist and Baroque periods, as well as the Surrealist movement. Owing allegiance to no one particular art movement, it was from within the conceptual framework of all these periods that the visual genesis of my style was determined.
I have an endless fascination with anything from old "Freak Show" circus banners to anatomical images to classical, religious, and contemporary icons. I also have a penchant for the morbid ...scars and blood are evident in the work and I relish depicting myself in various degrees of pain.....it's cathartic. The result is a pictorial blend of exaggerated gestural images, improbable hand signals, artificial color, botanical references, symbolic iconography, anatomical anomalies, illusionistic "uncertainty" and a suspension of time, all of which I try to visually depict within a single spatial reality.
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My art in Italy
Who I'd like to meet:
Dark brooding geniuses with compassionate souls, people with PASSION, muses, creative marvels......and....Frida, Jesus, Oscar Wilde, Dali, Ray Harryhausen, Andy Warhol, all the Old Masters, Houdini, the Beat Poets, Hannibal Lecter, Einstein, anyone who has been awarded the nobel peace prize.....the list is too long!!
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Dark brooding geniuses with compassionate souls, people with PASSION, muses, creative marvels......and....Frida, Jesus, Oscar Wilde, Dali, Ray Harryhausen, Andy Warhol, all the Old Masters, Houdini, the Beat Poets, Hannibal Lecter, Einstein, anyone who has been awarded the nobel peace prize.....the list is too long!!
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