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'Footprints
of Vishnu', Xerox feet impression, with collage and
diamonte jewels.
For a few years I started doing impressions of myself
on the copy machine. When I was teaching at college
I used to do face impressions in the lunch hour on the
big copying machine. I liked to slow it down so that
I got strange spirit-like image effects. Later, Nik
and I got private access to a machine and made the series
of body prints I call 'Scrolls' or 'Chakra Men and Women'.
I felt the body printing was a good 2-D version of the
life-cast. For the full body images, we copied sections
of our bodies and put them together. My idea with the
'Scrolls' was to create contemporary versions of the
Tantric 'Chakra Man', using ourselves as the template,
so making the vision of the charkas more accessible.
'Androgyne' is a piece about sexual alchemy and the
blending of opposites in the crucible of self, beyond
gender. 'Footprints of Vishnu' is my rendition of a
tantric art form in which the soles of the feet of god
Vishnu are depicted with the auspicious symbols on them.
- "Also
Miss Slinger produces Scrolls, silkscreen mono prints,
which seem not to explore the unconscious but to extend
consciousness into the paranormal with apparitional
heads, feet marked with sigils, ghost hands holding
cherries. Evidently both spiritual and physical reality
are equally real for Miss Slinger; and both spirit
and body should, her work tells us, make an onslaught
on the senses. The lady is an authentic artist…"
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Oswell Blakeston, Sunday Telegraph 1977.
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Examples of Penny's work in this medium published
in 'Copy Art' by Patrick Firpo, Lester Alexander,
Claudia Katayangi, Steve Ditlea, 1978. Horseguard
Lane Productions.
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