Exploring the captured moment, these photographs are fleeting graphic patterns and textures that are captured sporadic from constantly changing screens. They have a quality of an intentional accident, and a strange rhythm of harmony in the destruction and chaos of the images.
Digital to Analog Photography
The digital world is not as distant or incompatible to the material world as it seems, yet it feels so until we see it from an alternate perspective. While the Van Dyke Brown prints are not antiquated,with their textured paper and warm earthy tones, they have a similar affect to vintage or aged prints which soften the sometimes harsh and unappealing cyber aesthetic of digital imagery.
When the crisp and data-formed images of a computer are transferred to an analog photograph form, it losses it digital identity and becomes something physical, and with that it seems to gain face, body, skin. Turning a digital photograph analog brings a closer association to the physical world and allows the digital image to seem more organic.
Okapi Van Dyke II, 2018. (11"x15")
Gold Entities Van Dyke II, 2018. (11"x15")
Dorian's Shadow Van Dyke II, 2018. (11"x15")
Series Statement: Glitch Artwork 2018
These prints, part of the previous Glitch Art Series, are a continuing study into a new artistic process transforming original digital images into a traditional photographs with the goal of bringing our more emotionally engaging artwork using traditional Van Dyke Brown photographic processes and contemporary media image-sourcing while practicing varying methods of effective digital negatives.
