COURSE: Art 429: 3D Digital Studio I
MEDIUM: Digital Art
DESCRIPTION:
This piece of art was created using DCC (digital content creation) tools, including Autodesk Maya and Maxon Cinema4D for modeling, rendering through Arnold, and post-processing in Adobe Photoshop with help from BorisFX tools.
ARTIST’S STATEMENT:
In this work, a broad conversation unfolds, exploring the interplay between the seemingly divergent forces of beauty and control within our world. Seeking to provoke introspection, this work challenges viewers to confront the complexities of an inescapable march toward an uncertain future in which technology can, and is already, rippling our view of reality.
Drawing inspiration from traditional Dutch Golden Age paintings of the distinct Vanitas style, particularly “Flowers in a Stone Vase” by Abraham Jansz Begeyn, a visual narrative emerges, juxtaposing the realms of the manufactured and the natural. Through intricate layers of symbolism, darkness emerges in the storm, fog, and divide inherent in our inevitable pursuit of technological progress. Water, representing life, coalesces into an ambiguous, nurturing, and alluring form while chaotic and interconnected wires pierce its surface. The looming presence of control, depicted by lowering bars, casts shadows over the landscape, reminiscent of a more ominous fate. Amidst this tension, curiosity emerges as a beacon of renewal, echoing the cyclical nature of life and the inevitability of rebirth represented through the onlooking frog, hovering butterflies, shrouded skull, and egg-like droplets bubbling to the surface of the sand-swept landscape.
