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I have a rich fantasy life, somewhat delusional. But its what keeps me alive and able to stretch my imagination. Here is one of my many unrealized projects.

My Infinity project needs an art lover to finance it as a Real Time Art Factory. It would be a contribution to our culture and even the universe to enjoy. Not limited to the internet, my images would ultimately reach outer space. And I would give pictures away for free.

The project requires a small building or factory for computers,servers and a rendering farm. It needs a few personnel and maintenance for computers, a web site and TV channel. Then, I can start my scripts which create the images and let them run for many decades. The scripts will generate trillions of pictures each one different. A dedicated TV channel will offer a connection to your PC or TV to watch image generation in real time. I’ll let you control the tempo between images. It’s free! And no commercials!! You can download, print and even create your own slide shows. Everyone on the planet could have pictures all one of a kind. I will offer a mode for real time animation. NASA will beam them into outer space for alien civilizations. Almost forgot. I need original music for the project. Now, where is that angel? I’ll even place their name on the factory and the TV channel.

Child's Face

An oil painting with the artist’s signature is valued because of inherent aesthetic qualities and as one of a kind. Its the original touched by the artist’s hand. You can’t duplicate it! Not yet!

The paintings in museums are one of a kind. In the future we will have new modes of scanning and printing technology. Cameras will be able to scan and record distance as well the light. Every pixel will have depth information and light. Such inevitable technological advances will challenge the meaning of the original. Printing devices will duplicate any surface quality or texture of paint and color. We will see copies which look exactly like the original masterpiece. Only forensic experts will be able to determine the difference. You will be able to buy a Rembrandt or Picasso at the grocery supermarket. Imagine, a 50 million dollar Rembrandt for $50.00. Will this affect the idea of one of a kind?

Sketch

I view this image as a sketch. My primary concern was about abstraction with a focus on visual structure. But a concept of structure which has connections to art history. A formalization of it comes from gestalt psychology and visual perception. Yet because of the 3d perception of space you may see it as a “thing”, a sculpture, ribbons or tangled wires. It might suggest a photograph. The missing 2d picture plane
supports this notion.

At a later point you might appreciate my view as abstraction when you see similar imagery as animation. Once the segments move, tumble or rotate the idea of “thing” will most likely disappear, maybe not.

Frozen Moment

I made instances of the same figure and placed them in a circle. Their orientation is random. Made of glass lines they are fragile. Most of the time I try to create images which would be difficult as a conventional drawing or painting. The feeling of line, glass, lights, space and shadows introduces special qualities.

One of the challenges with computer modeling is to pose a figure in an interesting way. Modeling a figure in clay is much easier. Then have the clay model scanned and entered as a file. In the above pose I used computer modeling but I was lucky. She has the feel of a fashion model.

Infinite Universe

The sense of depth and scale to the universe is like science fiction. Where are the boundaries or the edges? It is indeed awesome! At the same time this is still nature but at a grand scale. Instead of looking at the landscape of earth we can look up at nature where there is no floor plane or background. Just space and matter or forms.

Here is a fragment of my infinite universe. A snapshot or instance in time. I can show millions of viewpoints of this universe. We could travel for billions of years. The visual cues provided by perspective, depth of field and layers of transparency enhances the qualities of space and form.