WBO DREAMS
Procedurally generated art replicated with human hands, using traditional mediums. A collaboration between iron and flesh.
An ongoing study trying and understand how a difference of approach, technique and detail affects the outcome of a piece of art and what it truly means to create.
Man becomes Machine and back.
Large Brawling Crowd
Large Brawling Crowd
Oil pastel on canvas
762 x 1016 mm
£390
Entwined dark forms twist and mesh with each other through a field of nothingness. An empty void that resembles familiarity. Deep blue and black tendrils spill from abstract masses, peppered with flecks of absorbing colour. The shadows cast over the sullen earth, scorched red and casting and collecting shadows in its hidden crevices. A plateau for interlocking abnormalities to gather and dance complex shapes over its obtuse surface
The artificial shapes that draw texture into the scene create a complexity unable to be fully replicated by human hands. A intense series of geometric equations running in parallel to replicate the illusion of earth.
A machine can only perform in mathematical language, Something the soil knows nothing about. And never will.
Demon Crest
Demon Crest
Oil pastel on canvas
400 x 300 mm
£210
Waves of teal peak through slight tears on the surface of a vacant, sandy plane. Leaving a green hue to wash over the surface, only breaking for cover of shadow. Sitting central in the yellowed frame, a form of almost biological origin, yet without any sense of logic to its creation. No beginning or ends. No real understanding of how nature creates.
The shape sits in a limbo between layers, ducking between a deep crevasse filled with dark shadows and eery brown corners to rounded peaks that catch every ray of artificially generated light bringing an element of depth manipulation that cannot exist in a physical space.
Using a section of this image for reference and heavily saturating the colours and bring forward natural undertones that reside deep in the image to create of study that crosses the line between artificially created art and physically incepted concepts.
How to think like a machine.
Floating Skeletal Ghost
Floating Skeletal Ghost
Oil pastel and soft pastel on canvas
914 x 1219 cm
£420
A skeletal structure looms through a heavy atmosphere of moody blue tones and soft pink highlights. Dark pits of shadow reside between the layers of fragile bone-like compositions. Joining in unnatural and surreal ways with unnerving asymmetrical angles and contours, the formations float endlessly through the void on an unending journey with no consequence.
Stretching, blurred bone imitations with little to no resemblance to anything in the real world, portrayed in an uncanny, half familiar setting that most artificially intelligently generated art seems to have.
A running theme of emptiness. A strange soulless impression, created without feeling, without eyes and without purpose.
You can sense a strange semblance of creativity in the machines actions. Although we can never directly speak to the machine, we can connect over the creation of art. Even sharing responsibilities in the producing these pieces, creating collaboration in a space where there wasn’t any before.
Floating Skeletal Ghost #14
Floating Skeletal Ghost #14
Oil pastel and soft pastel on canvas
300 x 400 cm
£160