It comes naturally to me to think in terms of programming rather than depicting, as well as when I'm working on music, so it doesn't surprise me that I've taken to this technique. This may have something to do with the experimental nature of my art, as it has so many complex variables as to open a myriad of original possibilities. Originality is quite important to my artistic output as well, I'd rather create something new and have it turn out badly than imitate something I like and have it come out... kitschy.
The problem with this seems to be that I'm making art for myself, and in not concerning myself with a greater audience I close my mind to certain aspects. There is a self assurance and ignorance to this which doesn't exactly appeal to me.
The specific pieces I'm working on are, as often is the case, personally significant. The overarching theme is the interaction of one's own chemistry and biology. Things that are corporeal and that which is experienced and perceived. Fueled by my morbid fascinations with anatomy and pathology these works depict an abstraction of feeling or being which is paralyzed by flesh and bone. This is an expression of a significant life experience for me. I tried to convey a sense of the immaterial in my renditions of the nervous system. The bones remain but the energy has more transience. Furthermore, I rendered the bones with more naturalism, abstract as they probably seem, while the nervous systems I almost completely interpreted.
In some ways this is a response to my last project which emphasized escape, this one emphasizes captivity: reality. I even began to notice my Cross-sectional study 's vertebral processes took on an almost crystalline aesthetic, probably since it was one of my favorite qualities of the last print.
I just got it to a point where I like it. I was inspired by crude antique cross-sections of the cervical vertebrae which make up the right half of this spinal column. The left half is more of an exterior profile showing the superior and inferior articular processes more inspired by advanced digital imaging techniques of the modern age. In these contrasting manners it gazes internally, and recalls the theme of enhanced images in order to gain perspectives that surpass the human eye, like the 400x magnified DMT crystals used in my last project as Jennifer noticed. I'll upload some pictures later to illustrate the anatomy involved later, as well as some more technical information on how I produced these.
Liberated Vertebrae, this was the first I made in this series. It gets into a much more lavish interpretation of the superior ganglia and energy within an unusually stimulated nervous system. This isn't cropped the as well as I'd like, I'm changing it, and probably some other things for the final draft.
This is a separated yet intertwined rendition of the central nervous system with flesh and bone. Again sort of abstract. It begs the question Who's in control here? Personally I'm partial to the mind, but a balance of both is probably the healthiest concord.
I'm thinking the cross-section may be best suited to this project, although I may use two. In any case I'd like to hear what people think but especially which of them I should use for Thursday, so I can know what I should focus on.
Update; Considering the 8x11 size of standard paper I've resized two of these. This is how they would appear in the context of this project, albeit at lower resolution.
I just got it to a point where I like it. I was inspired by crude antique cross-sections of the cervical vertebrae which make up the right half of this spinal column. The left half is more of an exterior profile showing the superior and inferior articular processes more inspired by advanced digital imaging techniques of the modern age. In these contrasting manners it gazes internally, and recalls the theme of enhanced images in order to gain perspectives that surpass the human eye, like the 400x magnified DMT crystals used in my last project as Jennifer noticed. I'll upload some pictures later to illustrate the anatomy involved later, as well as some more technical information on how I produced these.
Liberated Vertebrae, this was the first I made in this series. It gets into a much more lavish interpretation of the superior ganglia and energy within an unusually stimulated nervous system. This isn't cropped the as well as I'd like, I'm changing it, and probably some other things for the final draft.
This is a separated yet intertwined rendition of the central nervous system with flesh and bone. Again sort of abstract. It begs the question Who's in control here? Personally I'm partial to the mind, but a balance of both is probably the healthiest concord.
I'm thinking the cross-section may be best suited to this project, although I may use two. In any case I'd like to hear what people think but especially which of them I should use for Thursday, so I can know what I should focus on.
Update; Considering the 8x11 size of standard paper I've resized two of these. This is how they would appear in the context of this project, albeit at lower resolution.
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