Only recently added to the list of styles and techniques applied by Alex Diamond over the years, the wood carvings shows a strong influence of Japanese wood cuts of the likes of Hokusai and Hiroshige.
In this work, Alex Diamond transfers several aspects of the famous popular Japanese art of the 18th and 19th century into a modern, urban context: repetition of the same themes and subjects; simplification of perspective, nature and architecture; use of patterns and reduced color schemes; demonic characters.

The traditional, elaborate, technically challenging and time-consuming craft of carving into painted wood with tiny blades, is accompanied by modern means of urban expression. Mixing styles and techniques as well as the organic and (meticulously) experimental approach has always been a driving force in the work of Alex Diamond (more info

"Being Alex Diamond" is a photographic project that started in 2007 and was exhibited between 12/2008 and 2/2010 in Miami, Hamburg, Basel and Barcelona. It consisted of over 50 photo-paintings. The final photos are Lambdaprints (sizes between 18x18 cm and 80 x 100 cm), that were painted and drawn over by the artist.

The project is covered in a book published by Gudberg Verlag (purchase/info).

preface of the book by Rik Reinking: Rik Reinking
more info & all images of the project: alexdiamond.net