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About trompehalf

I am an artist with a fascination with history. Not battles per se, but the culture and personalities that shape history. Gossip is good too.

Eleonora of Toledo

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La Valliére

This image is composed in layers cut out with a scalpel. Each layer is separated from the other with clear resin, achieving remarkable depth. The duchesse de La Valliére was the first mistress of Louis XIV of France. She was … Continue reading

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Paolo and Francesca

Another baroque stage set in resin, Paolo and Francesca are two lovers from Dante’s Inferno.

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Homeboy

Part of the ongoing baroque stage set resin series, Homeboy represents being out of one’s element. A study in incongruity.

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The Hunt

Part of the baroque set resin series. The Hunt was the first of this series and shows a wren pierced with a golden arrow. But the wren lives.

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Icarus

Part of the baroque stage series, Icarus fell from the sky when his wax wings got too close to the sun. Ambition? Foolishness?

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Apollo

One in a series of baroque sets encased in layers of clear resin. Unexpected imagery, dreams and hallucinations.

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