The #photography series of pedestrians and passengers on misty roads by Ratnadwip Saha is beautiful.
The soft light of blue hour or shaded sunshine radiates a sense of mystery, and the silhouettes of people disappearing in the distance tickles a feeling of wanderlust.
The artist prepared a virtual gallery with their works that I just stumbled upon and want to share with you.
Stories of Sponges and Survival is a write–up about Paweł Grzelak's two recent, strangely beautiful #DigitalArt projects Gemmules and Symplasma: Experiment that put their focus on a somewhat unassuming animal species: sponges!
Read my text to find out why this is way more interesting (and beautiful) than one might expect:
syrup by Rose Forsyth-Jackson and Ūru by Taktil each fascinate me on their own, but when in dialogue, they prompt me to consider similarities and differences in presentation and process.
I placed these artworks next to each other in my virtual gallery Pico Steps for 9 Generations that displays #photography and photorealistic #DigitalArt.
1/ Following up on my write–up about Quasi Dragon Studies (QDS) by Harvey Rayner, here is the thread about recent #GenerativeArt projects that I originally intended to write.
1/ Initially, I wanted to make a short thread about recent #GenerativeArt projects that caught my attention. But it quickly escalated when I started to put my thoughts into words.
Where does one stop to write about the majestic elegance of Quasi Dragon Studies by Harvey Rayner?
The #GenerativeArt worlds that @mandybrigwell creates are beautiful and captivating. Noisy minimalism and thoughtful narratives combine into #DigitalArt that is uniquely hers.
Expanse is inspired by the salt marshes near the artist's home and adds an other-worldly influence. It is also an exploration of exploration—not for the sake of knowledge, but for desperate survival after we have destroyed our home.
In Pursuit of Happines by Lewis Osborne isn't the first artwork to visualize our constant struggle; watch Steve Cutts' poignant short film Rat Race, for example.
Yet the artist's unmistakable looping style fits the theme perfectly. Did you notice that briefly, one of the heads in chase of happiness actually for a short time seems to be happy? And not when it is touching the happy bait, but rather passing next to it?
1/ The art of @the_grecu stands as visual poems and metaphors of isolation, deconstruction and transitions.
It is rooted in captivating video works with lingering slowness that show the transformations of the mundane into the mystical. freon or iridium foreshadow the surreal liminality we embrace in today's #AIArt and create the basis from which the artist drew their initial, mesmerizing releases (see on https://mihaigrecu.net/works).
1/ Soft Sounds by @evrythngissoft is a visual exploration of memories and music.
The dreamlike images draw inspiration from Hirokazu Koreeda's film After Life, where cherished memories are reimagined as theatrical spectacles.
The artist embraces this fantastical approach and visualises their recollections of being at outdoor music festivals in the woods, juxtaposing nature with noise.
A short thread about three #GenerativeArt projects on #fxhash that I really like and that aren't fully minted yet. They cover memories, space, and ancient artefacts.
The art of @jonahcordy is characterized by complex arrangements and repetitions of angular shapes.
Structural Bloom has bold colours, tight spacing, and unique arrangements, and I added #9 to my collection.
I love how the muted, calm blue background balances the vivid red, how the diagonal composition splits up not quite symmetrically and how it lingers at the moment of revealing whatever is hidden inside.
1/ The online group show Strange Skies on @albadotart features six works of #GenerativeArt that have left me anxious to see the final results like few others have so far.
@Haiver has brought together an absolutely amazing group of artists to show their visions of unnatural landscapes, of liminal spaces that immediately strike a note within us beyond our conscious recognition, speaking to a more visceral knowledge.
1/2 I love the playfulness in "Floatilla" by @measureless.
The description and metadata suggest an inspiration by "mouches volantes", the small floating dots that sometimes appear in our field of vision. Brightly coloured and translucent, the resulting images feel like a menagerie of charming balloon animals.
When I was younger, I'd roam the city with my camera, looking out for cool new street art.
NUBPLUS shares my love for graffiti, stencils and lamp post crocheting, and their latest #GenerativeArt project "Street Soul" on #fxhash is inspired by it and shows a beautiful blend of layers and styles.
It's no secret that I'm a big fan of Studio Captain's allusively abstract art. His latest work "Jawbreaker" captures its title to the point with its fierce red background and the jagged shape.👊
1/2 Pouya Bashiri creates charming, #PixelArt inspired landscape scenes. Recently, they did some collaborations with Fatima Derakhshi and thus luckily introduced me to their works.
Both artists use a playful, flattened style that emphasizes colours and shapes, and both focus on cute rather than complex representations of our world.
Awesome to see CR3x00C by @D_VISION7 featured in @objktcom's daily curation! Their whole im/material series is beautiful. The details in the huge file are amazing, you really have to look at it zoomed in.
This calm and peaceful image projects an aura of honest admiration of its subject: a solitary, moonlit mountain resembling iconic Mount Fuji.
While the artist would otherwise often use glitch animations to breathe life into their morbid and mysterious art, they didn't here. A single bar of pixels is the only abstract element and feels like a nod of respect to the Japanese tradition of calligraphic ornamentations.
Some art shines even more in company; I love how the recent works by yepsst look in context:
"Alif" feels right at home between "SND 01" and "SND 50", borrowing their patterns and palettes, while breaking the rigid grid with harmonious curves; "Cp - Celebrating" links the sandy colors of "delusions#07" with the stubborn, morseoid lines of "black N life #8".
More art from my collection that needs to be seen:
"The Grass #8" by @tuukzs is an early, unrecognized gem of generative glitch.
The title suggests that the synchronized dance of lines could represent blades of grass that sway in the wind and that every now and then get blown apart by a storm.
Anyway, the ebb and flow of the animated artwork is captivating to watch.
The randomly generated, confusing 3D complexes can be explored, and the iteration I collected has a fancy colour gradient that reminds me of a CRT screen when you place a magnet near it. Seeing all its elements makes me wonder what kind of purpose they might have.
This detailed presentation of a non–existent place is fascinating.
"Before the storm" by Leonardo Solaas is testament to humanity's enduring fascination with landscapes in art. It manifests the artist's shift of focus from details to landscapes and explores the duality of beauty and danger; its expressionism–inspired images show the calm before the storm.
Here's my latest write–up "Brushstrokes and Breezes" on fx(text). You can support my writing by collecting an edition.