"Big Red: An Ode to '69"

"Big Red: An Ode to '69" 2023

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Digital painting, photography, physical texture extraction and pixel manipulation.

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An ode to the 1969 exhibition of 69 artists "When Attitudes Become Form" - curated by Harald Szeemann and reimagined for the show "From Thought To Form" by the Flannel Collective.

As an artist who’s process often outweighs the provenance of the aesthetics of the “final piece” - with experience (both of the artist and the audience) being more important and the conversation the final output encourages being the highlight; I remember studying this exhibition during my Masters degree and it’s an honour to have been invited to participate again.

Process Art isn’t necessarily how I would term my work, however to encapsulate everything that goes into it the titling fits the brief.

John Knopf and I went exploring in the Dubai desert and this piece uses photography captured while exploring “Big Red” - both as the colour grading palette but also for the data rendering and pixel manipulation.

All of my work begins with an experience, whether that be listening to or performing a certain piece of music; or getting out into the wilderness and immersing myself in the surroundings. It’s becoming apparent to me how much vibrational frequency is important in my work - from both my physical paintings and digital paintings/installations - and it’s these moments I try to capture.

From here, I rendered some physical painting movements into Procreate - layered with some digital painting layers and ran them through a sequence in After Effects and Resolume which allows me to run audio data through visual outputs.

“From Thought To Form” was a title with a loaded question to me - how do I see work before it becomes a tangible entity. From subconscious, into consciousness, intangible to tangible. I decided to experiment with manipulating the colour fields to represent how things come to life for me visually; black and white into hyper-saturation.

I minted this piece into my SuperRare collection because for me, the intention behind the exhibition and the shifting form of the curator/patron in this space carries a lot of weight.

I haven’t seen an exhibition like this take place within the crypto art space; so a huge congratulations to Flannel Capital and the Flannel Collective team for suggesting and pulling off what I feel is a landmark moment in the history of this space.

27/03/23