chris
klein art designer art image art
computer art digital art commissioned art
interior art space art stars art office art to be
seen as art for offices at home in homes or corporate
spaces and pubic domain art for anywhere art for everywhere
high art fine art low art future art modern art now art then art as
wallpaper art as background art as foreground art as fairground art as
work rest and play art of the exceptional art of the different art of the
common
place perceptual art contemporary art language art poetry art today art of
the everyday
think of this site as an umbrella
covering a range of subjects covered by
the artist occasionally known as chris klein
digital
drawing
often asked at exhibitions how i produce my work usually give a stumbling
worth explaining the process.
images are created as a variation of digital drawing. first stage use a programme
called freehand to make
black and white line drawing. a precise geometric design or other themes drawing
over a photograph as
geometric approximation of the tonal image. with representational images working
geometric way
inevitably leads to reality treated as abstract puzzle. one could say one
deliberately paints
oneself into a corner - put myself into impossible position then try to invent
way out.
representational near miss is exported to photoshop so closed areas between
intersecting paths are filled with solid colour or gradient. gradually image
appears as stark exaggeration of original photograph. this point work
on colour balance bringing it closer feel the original scene, not
necessarily the original colours. also rely heavily on
photoshop glowing edges filter redraw graduated
areas enhancing their structural quality.
bit of computer induced laziness
would have been done with
pen or pencil.
through different versions
each image trying to recreate feelings
about each place when first seen. not trying
to create a faithful photographic rendition of what
was there, far from it. chose my subject matter for its
significance, its mystery, the questions it poses and the
moment in time. the photograph is just a thumbnail sketch,
a reminder. the artwork is how i remember it to be, what it
meant to me. philosophical debate about reassembled
deconstructivism would sound pretentious.
fluid
geometry
what makes our world affects what we make of it. science has completely
changed our perception of the universe in the last hundred years and it is
those
changes that interest me. the realisation that matter isn't matter, but bundles
of energy moving on set paths and held together in a matrix which appears
to
have form, has always fascinated me. the contemporary collective unconscious
now includes integrated circuits, neural labyrinths, subatomic particles,
interstellar space, wave forms and chaos theory. fluid geometry is a
representation of this revised perception
dark
projections
an inversion of fluid geometry.
overcurrent
alludes to the opinions and emotions not visible at the surface,
an inverted undertow which controls and oversees our comprehension of everyday
life.
overcurrents are beyond now, beyond the present -
overcurrents are the future
polymorphism
polymorphous is defined as having, taking, or passing through many different
forms or stages. in this case it is turning into two dimensional sculpture
overdrive
we think our lives have direction - we think we're going somewhere. so many
different directions, so many possibilities. as we drive over the past, over
old values and past mistakes, we're so sure we're making progress
driving forwards towards the future as we leave the past behind
the
electric garden
the electric garden was a glimpse of the bigger picture,
born in a brief moment of zen simplicity.
cyber
fauve
i chose the name for these pieces with
reference to the surge of positivity that was
prevalent at the last birth of a century
the
last fluid geometry
stasis says it all
overzero
overzero is about life after nothing. it is the still morning after a
bad dream.
it is the apocalypse that didn't happen. life without reason, existence without
purpose.
not fearing god or death, it is both desolation and hope
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