Scanography
I used two found materials in the studio - acetate and colored light bulb to produce this scan series. One is transparent in color and the other is tinted yellowish lime color. I decided to make various experiments by crumbling them up or turning them loosely into a bow or a wrinkled knot, the scans comes out reflecting interesting textures that resembles a kind of soft, organic glass. While the neon pink, green and blue colors gives a sense of futuristic machine lights, it also projects different depths of space. The light bulb reflected various colorful colorful spots that are really intriguing.
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These images are very beautiful and evocative. I think of the Big Bang, or spirits or strange creatures deep at the bottom of the ocean (the kind with weird lights on their heads). Your use of plastic is very effective. I wonder how you can push this idea by changing the background with colored paper or cloth.
ReplyDeleteThese scans are gorgeous! i love the iridescent quality. It might be interesting to layer satin or velvet underneath. I have tried moving objects during the scans and the colors that come out of that might work well with your objects.
ReplyDeleteI like your work and how you incorporated light to something reflective and crystal and make it into so colorful and iridescent!
ReplyDeleteI would like to make a case for beauty and, well, for the sublime: I think the scans, the broken glass-like series, are sublime. There is something dangerous about them. We are moved to look at them, but, at the same time, they have some shattered, smashed windshield quality that suggests violence. This, of course, is in direct opposition to the "Pashmina" series, which is about comfort and beauty. In literary theory, this would be the distinction between the sublime and the beautiful. The later, with is landscape of softness, its colors of earth and flesh and light and dirt remind us all of the balance and tranquility of traditional landscapes.
ReplyDeleteThe scans are a great extension of the digital painting you did; it's a very different medium and yet, it shows a similar language and very painterly approach. Beautiful.
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