more fun with vectors
YAYOI. 30x30, acrylic on board. 2017
‘You’re wrong. She is a phony. But on the other hand you’re right. She isn't a phony because she's a real phony. She believes all this crap she believes. You can't talk her out of it.’ -
—Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany’s
More Fun With Vectors is a series of paintings that translate digital imagery back into physical form. Each work begins as a computer generated vector image and is then carefully reconstructed by hand using traditional painting techniques.
The project reverses a familiar technological process. While digital tools are often used to imitate the physical world, these works use paint, board, and manual labour to recreate images that originated on a screen. The paintings therefore sit between two visual languages: the precision and flatness of digital graphics and the tactile presence of hand made painting.
By rebuilding digital imagery through mechanical painting processes, the works question how we understand representation in an era dominated by screens. They explore the strange loop between physical and virtual space, where images move constantly from object to file and back again.
