Emerging Venus

Another image from my Venus in The Garden series. Here Venus is somewhat incomplete making the representation more free and open. Because of transparency the objects from behind function like modulations within Venus. Perhaps the viewer can bring their imagination to the work and fill in the details. I tried to treat Venus as a phenomenon emerging from space. As if she is from an earlier time and place.

Works like this one are influenced by earlier artists. I have always loved incomplete works especially quick sketches by major artists.The unsigned drawings by the old masters, especially Rembrandt. They look unfinished and sometimes the idea is not clear. It’s like a personal note by the artist to himself. Never intended for the world to see.

Invisible Universe

Do the brush marks imply an invisible reality of objects such as spheres? I can simultaneously see a front and a back of the brush marks. Is it too poetic to say an invisible universe controls or shapes my
external reality called brush marks? Before I even begin I must be able to visualize the invisible.

Is it the invisible which gives a greater feeling of infinite space? While my initial motivation was to create something which looks like brush marks in 3d, the spatial qualities were a bit of a surprise to me. I like the touch of magic.

Complexity

My Virtual Me found this image for me. There is complexity here but is it just much detail?  There are some questions.   Since every fragment is in perspective, what are we looking at?  Is this a photograph of fragments on a child’s playground? Are we looking at a rehash of  modern abstract painting which is passe?

I’m told there may be a way to give the image an aura of complexity. Maybe even a niche for my work. I need to bring attention to the algorithms I use. Make the code part of the aesthetic. I might find a home with generative art, artificial life, or even multi-agent systems. But these are procedures and processes or recipes which have little to do with art. So how do we  tell if its art?

Threads

How do I comment about his picture? I wonder if its art. Is this just a special effect? The feeling of threads covering a face or the threads creating the face. I find the layering of the threads interesting giving emphasis to 3d cues. Does the face in shadow give it a sense of mystery? Is this the work of a drunken spider? Is my rich fantasy life making it art? Would I have been better off sticking to drawing by hand? Certainly would be easier than writing code to create it. But then it would look flat like an ordinary drawing. I still love the 3d perspective. Its a little refreshing from my old 2d picture plane.

Scribbles

Art and drawing has always been a mental process even when I used charcoal. It’s not the hand but the brain at work.I first thought of the idea represented by the above image in 1966. My initial thoughts were about flying through and around a drawing in 3d. But I had to wait a long time before raster graphics appeared. The idea needed lighting models to give emphasis to 3d cues. Fog or atmosphere helps. An animation language had to be invented along with procedures using bicubic patches and b-splines for the lines.

The movement and direction of the lines in my image are determined by the vertex points of invisible objects. The bspline provides nice curvature. Later, you might enjoy my flight throughout the drawing.