Miss iD

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Please allow us to introduce Miss iD, the image shown above.  This image of Clair Mead Hartmann's early 1990s oil painting is an optimized version of a photograph we took more than a decade ago.  Clair was Creative Director of the original iD Magazine.  Since it is a poor photograph, parts of the painting needed to be cut out to achieve the rectangular image shown here.  You can see the original photo of this painting (that displays the entire painting and demonstrates her scale) on the Gallery page under Clair's feature.

Once just a painting, now Miss iD means many things to us such as world peace through unity and a global call for art in the form of the Mother Millennia exhibit.  We believe that Miss iD can prove the power of the arts that can be demonstrated through a future Olympics of the Arts (iDlympics) and with iD Magazine, a future network of printed and online publications spanning the globe.  Miss iD represents this and more, including the Explosion of the Arts III global network of arts festivals.

Clair's painting was created using an image that appeared in an old magazine advertisement.  Where are you, the original Miss iD, the model behind the photo in the magazine ad?  We should meet so that photographs of you can be taken by good photographers.  It would be nice to see how more than a decade has brought more of your beauty to the surface.  We would need to share these photos with artists worldwide to be used as building material for Mother Millennia.

Please join me in giving thanks to Ansgard Thomson, a member of R2001 from Edmonton Canada, Alberta (see her art on the Gallery page).  She shows us both sides of Miss iD's face (above -- click for a larger view).  Her art submission is computer generated and was received in August 2002.

We did not request this art from Ansgard.  She was kind enough to send it to us on her own free will and showed us something we never would have seen otherwise.  We simply sent the Miss iD image to Ansgard accompanied with the question 'What does Miss iD mean to you?'  She provided us with her interpretation and we are very happy to display her work and give her recognition.

This is the essence of the Mother Millennia call for art -- giving to the community (or communities, since this is the Internet).  Artwork from artists worldwide is requested, with each image representing a different interpretation of what Miss iD means to that artist.  What does Miss mean to you?  Bronze beauty?  Noodle art?  Other people want to see.  However, only our thanks along with recognition on this site can be given in return.

Another piece of artwork, an airbrushed painting of Miss iD by Jacksonville, Florida's Justin Shanks, is shown below and was received shortly after the arrival of Ansgard's artwork.  Justin's painting was actually the first piece of artwork that was requested as part of the Mother Millennia exhibit.  Click his image below for a larger view.

Justin's artwork (shown above) brings an issue at hand. Please do not send original artwork to A City of Expression in Jacksonville.  Submit it to your local newspaper as part of your city's Mother Millennia exhibit.  Your art will be submitted by the newspaper and entered into the 2005 iDlympics, with global winners to be announced on Art Day (July 2, 2005).  Who will create the world's most artistic image of Miss iD?

Take professional photos of your artwork, scan them, and optimize them for the Internet.  Don't use poor photos with glare showing in some areas like the one you see above of Justin's art that was taken by us.  iD Magazine is concerned about presenting your art at the best quality possible on the Internet within our Mother Millennia exhibit.  See the bold text near the top of this page (above the original Miss iD image) for more information about our requirements.

Please help us spread word of the Mother Millennia exhibit by telling your newspapers.  Submit your artwork to your newspapers and ask your artistic friends to submit images as well.  Be sure to send a gif or jpeg image to us approximately 650 pixels wide.  Please don't put off starting work on your art because Mother Millennia is better sooner than later!  Allow us and others to view your interpretation of Miss iD.

The Miss iD artwork by Max Kraft (shown above) are the first images we obtained years ago of Miss iD before the concept of her Mother Millennia exhibit was developed.  Max, an animator,  was told that we envisioned Miss iD as a dancer and a cello player and that we needed an animated character that could be used in promotions for the magazine and as the spokesperson for iDucation and the iDlympics.   Thanks for helping us out in a time of need, Max!

Have fun creating your artwork of Miss iD and please send it soon.

Watch the creation of a Miss iD painting by a very talented artist!

ADOLF
Barcelona, Catalunya
ADOLF@ADOLF-art.com
http://www.ADOLF-art.com

Walter Fitzwater
Jacksonville, FL USA

Pete Wolf
Jacksonville, FL USA

These interpretations of the Miss iD image come from Webism members Susan Graves from Nottingham, United Kingdom (on the left) and Ingrid Kamerbeek from Sonthofen, Germany (on the right).  Click on each image for a larger view.  Thanks a million, Webism!

This interpretation of the Miss iD image comes from Webist Parys St. Martin from Australia.  Isn't she beautiful!  Click the image for a larger view.

The Miss iD interpretations above come from Webist Erato Tsouvala from Piraeus, Greece (on the left) and Webist Kytom Leakhim from Freiburg, Germany (on the right).  Click each image for a larger view.  The Miss iD interpretation below comes from Mark Gebhardt of Jacksonville, FL USA.  The image is created using the numbers 0 and 1 in different colors.  You can see this better by clicking on the image to see the larger view.

The Miss iD interpretations above come from Webist Maitre Andre from Moutier, Switzerland (on the left) and Webist Vijaybhai Kochar from Hyderabad, India (on the right).  Click each image for a larger view, especially click Vijay's because much of his image needed to be cut to keep the poem legible in his smaller image above (the entire poem he used appears at the bottom of this page).

The two images below come from Webist Mike Lovric from London, United Kingdom.