For my new project, just started this week, I am going in a very new direction. I am creating line screened offset lithographs and polymer plate "Landscapes". As usual, my interests lie in the construction of images as they transverse different mediums and paradigms and so these particular landscapes come from digital gaming worlds and then get "translated" into traditional and older analog reproduction techniques.
In all cases, I would like to preserve some of the unreal whimsy or romance of the original, while transforming it into something wholly ambiguous.
the only real issue right now, is that the outcomes are quite aesthetic, and as a general rule, i prefer when the aesthetics play a secondary role to the thought being generated.
I will have to try more and see how the process works as a generator of interesting questions.
This was also a practice run for me working with the large offset printer and though it was fun to learn, my body is still aching from the two days of printing with it. It does feel good to use my entire body to create something again, as sitting in front of a computer can sometimes be very alienating.
2 comments:
When i heard about this project i was half-afraid to see gryphons flying through the sky. After my initial relief ( not that i honestly feared anything so tacky ;) ) I sat back and thought... nice landscape.
Then, knowing that it wasn't about that either, I made myself keep looking.
What i personally found interesting (knowing the origin of the piece) is that you took something computer-generated, reproduced it traditionally, and created a result which looks, oddly, more computer-generated than the initial image, with its slick realism that video games try so hard to hit.
Probably not at all what you were trying to convey, so if I'm way off, feel free to disregard everything past the gryphon comment...
There is no right way to interpret this or anything else. What questions or thoughts that get generated are either interesting or not. They are not right or wrong.
There is definitely something digital about this work, even after the initial source is passed. It cannot be mistaken for a naturalistic approached landscape.
I need to see were this can go.
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