Digital Art
Index Visual Music Words
These drawings above were made by overlapping layers.The
drawings are combined up to 8 times and create new potential
interpretations of form, extending the possible shapes that can be seen within
the individual drawings. The observation of combined images broadens ones
knowledge of possible forms. This process creates a
combination of addition and subtraction. In some of these works the art is actually a precisely
delineated void of black, which is not emitting light, or reflecting
anything.
All of these drawings began as line drawings which I used the computer to color
in. In this way no pigments were necessary. The drawings below are color
coordinated according to temperature. This system can also bee seen as matching
specific wavelengths of light with shapes that have a generalized average angle
to the contours. The gestures of the shapes can be seen as tests of their
strength revealing their properties. The stronger shapes are made up of
molecules that are closer together and therefore can reflect shorter
wavelengths such as blue violet, longer waves such as red cannot pass through
to illuminate them as with the red shapes that are composed of more distantly
spaced molecules. In this way the color is determined from the start. These
drawings are exercises for the mind and are not intended to depict specific
elements or compounds from life. The system is comparable to Plato's theory of
forms in which ideas not material objects are studied. The system creates a
spectrum that is also analogous to a chromatic musical scale so that magenta
red is C and blue violet is B, as a homage to Issac Newton and his analogy of
sound waves and light waves. However these drawings are made to be taken apart
and recomposed as musical notation paintings, in this case each typology is
representative of an octave, not key. Therefore the shapes may be any color but
must be placed on the appropriate background color/temperature. The voids
within these forms are created by imagining powerful sounds that move and open
the forms at specific intervals, not simply that the forms are being pinged to
produce percussive noise, I am not interested in that. I have placed these
drawings online to help illustrate my thinking process.
