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Diane Victor
4 quotes
“The images I am working with are taken from our daily media coverage of recent and almost commonplace happenings in newspapers, on TV and on radio of social and criminal acts of violence and ongoing unnecessary deaths – occurrences so frequent that they no longer raise an outcry from our public, yet they still constitute disaster in peacetime.”
Diane Victor (born 1964) first seen 2019 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Art in South Africa". Art.co.za. Archived from the original on 8 January 2019. Retrieved 28 March 2025.
“The portraits are made with the deposits of carbon from candle smoke on white paper. They are exceedingly fragile and can be easily damaged, disintegrating with physical contact as the carbon soot is dislodged from the paper. She was interested in the extremely fragile nature of these human lives and of all human life, attempting to translate this fragility into portraits made from a medium as impermanent as smoke itself.”
Diane Victor (born 1964) first seen 2011 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Diane Victor". David Krut Publishing. 28 February 2011. Retrieved 28 March 2025.
“The technique of using ash as a drawing medium developed from printmaking. Texture and tone in etching is produced when rosin dust is sprinkled onto an etching plate to create an aquatint.”
Diane Victor (born 1964) first seen 2018 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Little History" Proferssor Karen von Veh, interview with Diane Victor 2018. Retrieved 28 March 2025.
“Victor made another series of large smoke drawings of farm animals on glass called "Brief Lives", which were displayed in an abandoned abattoir. The glass drawings deal with the loss of body and identity and the nature of the smoke speaks of the transience of life.”
Diane Victor (born 1964) first seen 2011 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: DAVID KRUT PROJECTS, Brief Lives: new smoke drawings on by Diane Victor. 2011/09/07 (2011/09/23) by Juliet White. Retrieved 28 March 2025.