I love the dance between the digital and the analog.
Set the pixels in place, print and then set to with the tools of a previous age:
Actual cutting with actual scissors
Actual mess with actual paste.
The combination of these colours and the sheen of the medium have given her heads a pearly purity.
(And all that baldness was bothering me.
It’s getting lost now under layers of cut out swirls.)
Poured paint, deluge of color.
But tonally bland.
Contrast added. A sea of souls.
I’ve been playing over ideas of barcodes. Visually, I love their zebra-patterning. Here I’m toying with the aesthetic nonsense they produce when ‘broken’. The warm analogue fuzziness contrasted by the unforgivingly On/Off-ness of a digital world. The fragments of the binary decay merge into the familar, natural.
Ingredients:
White Gesso
Assorted found barcodes
Drawing Ink
White watercolor
Palette Dregs
Coffee
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