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My recent abstract paintings (mostly in Interior Latex but also in Oil) are inwardly-focused compositions with the intent of breaking my approach to painting.
My recent abstract paintings (mostly in Interior Latex but also in Oil) are inwardly-focused compositions with the intent of breaking my approach to painting; formerly strict in experimentation and impermanent in intent, derived from inspiration relating to web development. My experience with the material (latex paint, plaster gauze) and the pixels themselves has created a foundation for me to allow myself to enter the paintings or otherwise paint as outpouring of myself. The journey of this collection is that process - it having begun as experiment, it then hosted my reflections on healing and associated memories, and now having ‘cleansed’ those, reflects the love, constructive intent, and devotion of my spirit. At this point in the journey, I am free to tackle bigger representation, as having processed internal focus enough, I can leave its focus behind. A trace of this is always to be found in each artist’s work - its refinement may be the seed of all work ahead and ultimately determine its brilliance.
Twitterscapes are a timely and socially relevant conceptual springboard from my regular studio practice with pixels and inspiration from web development. Each Twitterscape is composed of colors applied to user ‘tweets’ (140 character remarks, musings, or other voice, on Twitter.) Using Twitter’s public timeline (a set of 20 current tweets and the respective users’ profile information that refreshes every minute of the most current tweets,) a script I have created pulls the tweets, converts them character for character into a matching of the user’s chosen colors, and displays them as rows of color on the page. These are then printed using the finest printing techniques available for clarity and preservation.
Conceptually, Twitterscapes are a snapshot of Twitter, a snapshot of the social media community, that is the visual equivalent of an old photograph. Each tweet on the public timeline involves the intent communications of 20 complete strangers being juxtaposed in their only similarity: that they are using Twitter. No matter what they say, their message and intent are lost by being taken completely out of the context of their true identity and the continuum of their messages, being presented as public information. However, each of these Twitter users has profile colors - four of them, that the user hand selected, which are far more revealing of the identity of Twitter and the community in the context of the public timeline than the actual tweets. Being matched, letter for letter, with tweets to create pictographs preserves the tweet’s length, the tweet’s rhythm, and ultimately its similarity with its neighbors. In old photographs, intentions and circumstance are also forgotten, and what is left is an image: a mood, a setting, a feeling, and similarity to all other old photographs without context. Some Twitterscapes have been snapped and preserved for viewing, but many others are un-noticed and will never be noticed or captured. Every minute, a new Twitterscape appears, and the last one disappears. They are as fleeting as the tweets themselves.
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Twitterscapes
Twitterscapes are a timely and socially relevant conceptual springboard from my regular studio practice with pixels and inspiration from web development. Each Twitterscape is composed of colors applied to user ‘tweets’ (140 character remarks, musings, or other voice, on Twitter.) Using Twitter’s public timeline (a set of 20 current tweets and the respective users’ profile information that refreshes every minute of the most current tweets,) a script I have created pulls the tweets, converts them character for character into a matching of the user’s chosen colors, and displays them as rows of color on the page. These are then printed using the finest printing techniques available for clarity and preservation.
Conceptually, Twitterscapes are a snapshot of Twitter, a snapshot of the social media community, that is the visual equivalent of an old photograph. Each tweet on the public timeline involves the intent communications of 20 complete strangers being juxtaposed in their only similarity: that they are using Twitter. No matter what they say, their message and intent are lost by being taken completely out of the context of their true identity and the continuum of their messages, being presented as public information. However, each of these Twitter users has profile colors - four of them, that the user hand selected, which are far more revealing of the identity of Twitter and the community in the context of the public timeline than the actual tweets. Being matched, letter for letter, with tweets to create pictographs preserves the tweet’s length, the tweet’s rhythm, and ultimately its similarity with its neighbors. In old photographs, intentions and circumstance are also forgotten, and what is left is an image: a mood, a setting, a feeling, and similarity to all other old photographs without context. Some Twitterscapes have been snapped and preserved for viewing, but many others are un-noticed and will never be noticed or captured. Every minute, a new Twitterscape appears, and the last one disappears. They are as fleeting as the tweets themselves.
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