Illuminating theTraditional Medium
Various Works Circa 2005
(Photos of Projections on Paintings)
Click on the Images to Enlarge
______________________________________________________
Sometimes I think that for the majority of the world painting/drawing is dead. The majority of people today do not appreciate these works of art like they did before the increase in technology from the beginning of the television era, up until our current computer technology. As a society today, we are saturated with iconography. We walk or drive to work seeing hundreds of advertisements. They can range from billboards, newspaper ads, to graffiti. Secondly the majority of us come home to watch television or in our leisure time watch a movie. Everyday thousands of visual images bombard our minds. Most images today can be highly creative and constructed relatively easy using computer technology. This overwhelmingly continuous phantasmagoria numbs us to anything sacred. There will be no "Mona Lisa" during our time because there are thousands of "Mona Lisas."
The majority of the world is exposed to some sort of illuminated screen, either a television, computer, or projected movie screen. These screens provide the tools to distribute this multitude of imagery. The screens vivid illumination catches the attention of human eyes. When passing a screen or projection, almost immediately an individual is drawn to the illuminated image. The illumination is almost magical, drawing the viewer closer.
Paintings/drawings do not have these illuminating qualities. When seating a person with a painting on the right and an illuminated screen on the left the person will be drawn to the illuminated screen before the painting, no matter how ingeniously constructed the painting is. The reason being is that the light draws the attention of the viewer because of its luminosity.
With the information overload of produced images today and the illuminated screens in our everyday life, traditional painting/drawing has lost its sacredness.
In my recent work I combine those traditional qualities of painting/drawing with the modern day screen technology. I illuminate the painting/drawing by either mounting the work on a screen or projecting an image on the painting/drawing. I capture these effects through photography.
I illuminate my own works with traditional mediums with these light sources to try and get the current day viewers attention. I am using a modern day familiarity in peoples lives to try and make them acquainted with my designs. The captured illumination of light combined with the traditional painting/drawing creates a visual, which is striking in illumination as well as abstract design. I hope to make the combination a new sacred experience for people to hold deeply in their minds.
The majority of the world is exposed to some sort of illuminated screen, either a television, computer, or projected movie screen. These screens provide the tools to distribute this multitude of imagery. The screens vivid illumination catches the attention of human eyes. When passing a screen or projection, almost immediately an individual is drawn to the illuminated image. The illumination is almost magical, drawing the viewer closer.
Paintings/drawings do not have these illuminating qualities. When seating a person with a painting on the right and an illuminated screen on the left the person will be drawn to the illuminated screen before the painting, no matter how ingeniously constructed the painting is. The reason being is that the light draws the attention of the viewer because of its luminosity.
With the information overload of produced images today and the illuminated screens in our everyday life, traditional painting/drawing has lost its sacredness.
In my recent work I combine those traditional qualities of painting/drawing with the modern day screen technology. I illuminate the painting/drawing by either mounting the work on a screen or projecting an image on the painting/drawing. I capture these effects through photography.
I illuminate my own works with traditional mediums with these light sources to try and get the current day viewers attention. I am using a modern day familiarity in peoples lives to try and make them acquainted with my designs. The captured illumination of light combined with the traditional painting/drawing creates a visual, which is striking in illumination as well as abstract design. I hope to make the combination a new sacred experience for people to hold deeply in their minds.
