Ciro Marchetti

Ciro Marchetti was born in Great Britain but moved to Miami, Florida where he is the president of a graphic design firm. He uses Adobe Photoshop and stresses the importance of the use of texture in his art. He states, "Another important feature is texture; I very deliberately break up the computer clean surfaces of the images by painting through a selection of custom prepared textured alpha channels. This adds a controllable tactile surface quality to the imagery where appropriate; i.e. rusted metal, rough stone." These photos were taken from his collection called Astronomical Portraits and Exotic Machines. in which he bleneded fantasy elements with scientific instruments of the past such as compasses and sextants. Quoted from the MOCA website, " This is an art of "exotic machines, somewhat dated in style and engineering, yet capable of function beyond the current capacity of today's real world science." "

What I like most about these pictures is the level of imagination and creativity that went into making these. They are truly gorgoeous with the use of color and astrological symbolism. the two pictures I chose were "Golden Gazebos" and "Peacock Lagoon".