My old website was a string of missteps and misadventures. First of all, I used FLASH to make it. Then I found out that FLASH was becoming extinct/obsolete. My website was too chaotic, too dense, and too slow.
Another problem with a website (in general
and in my opinion) is you primarily showcase
finished work there. So maybe, just maybe, I
might add 10-15 images per year to the website. 10-15 images annually is not much of a reason to visit a website. And since a lot of my work is built up layers of imagery, most of that work would never be seen by the general public. Those in-progress, behind-the-scenes shots are for Facebook and Instagram. The
descriptions of the process
and those behind-the-scenes in-progress shots are for this blog.
So back to the website. I needed something to be created using HTML5 (not FLASH) and way more eloquent and refined than what I typically put together. So I brought in a professional graphic designer,
Kathy Betcher, to help create my website. She has the calm and refined design sense I needed to make
www.stevebanksart.com!
I had to dig around in my archive to find several of these pieces. If an image existed just as slides, it is now lost to the annals of history...
Here are some older ones:
Ziggurat.
BabelMundo.
Mr. Snicklebones.
Priestess.
The Guardians.
An Evening At Smitty's.
Processionalization.
Barbarians At The Gate.
Visitors.
The Fantastico Mr. Bombastico.
Some more obscure ones:
Game of Chance Part II: Bonedance.
Mr. Falcon Finds A Stranger In The Alps.
You and Me.
Relative Location (Redux).
D-Lux Daydream D-Vine.
Divided By...
Nursery Rhyme.
A few newer ones:
Flowchart: Love and Sex.
How To Be A Gentleman of Leisure.
Constellation.
Promised Land (of Sky Blue Waters).
A few collaborative pieces with both
Heidi Hernandez and
Terry Rathje:
Froot Pie.
Neat Trick.
Pharaah.
Passages: River of Deceit and Knot House.
Colloquy.
Vestibule.
And even a few from
Pop Culture Palimpsest:
All of the photos from
Pop Culture Palimpsest (the good looking images) are courtesy of
Mr. Keith Nestor from
http://castofthousandsphotography.com/. He's a miracle worker, just see the picture directly below, and then compare it with the image immediately below that.
Like I said, Keith is a miracle worker.
When you get a chance, please go check out:
www.stevebanksart.com.
Next time we'll check out some more studio-based mayhem!
