DIGITAL PAINTING
Digital painting has revealed an uncomfortable truth to me: the creative act is rarely as original as we imagine it to be. Particularly considering the ease of digital painting (no mess)—even with all the idiosyncratic manipulations I’ve devised—I’ve found it difficult to escape deeply ingrained aesthetic patterns and molds. For all its amazing versatility and freedom, painting with digital tools, in some sense, magnifies not only the breadth of our imagination but also its boundaries.
What struck me most is how much of my process resembles a deep internal search for a true break with these embedded patterns and molds. My critical challenge wasn’t avoiding them but consciously employing them: interrogating the mechanisms, disrupting the familiar, and reimagining that which is other. Yet my goal has never been to simply create something ‘new’ but to engage deeply with origins and assumptions, reframing what we think we know.
This investigation into painting 'without a brush,' driven by a deep desire to discover my true inner image and meaning, has not only laid bare the particular constraints of the consensus we share in the very definition of painting but has also created an important passageway to significant ART.
SLIPSTREAM (2012-2022)
Slipstream is a decade long exploration into painting without a brush, by using digital tools only, by hacking algorithms and expanding into techniques not available in traditional painting. Each of the paintings chosen here is a representative examples of a group of related images.
The Gesture
The resulting stream of images, derivatives and morphed fusions ultimately still follows the same principles one would apply in any other method of painting: recognising the inner intention, training the hand that moves the paint, deepening the meaning through the mystery of the emerging image.
Cosmograms
Slipstream is a painters view of the universe and the chaotic states of humanity it contains; we may have names for this randomness like fait or karma, we have created Gods holding watch, but still, the best we can comprehend is resembling nothing more than a hologram.
Quantum Entanglement
No image stands alone, every image contains a history of images, some imprinted into our consciousness by history, some having lived and grown inside us; the latter more often revealing deeply mysterious connections between things.
The Body as a Location
Slipstream is a continuum of evolving imagery alongside my own, personal attempt to make sense of the human experience and its trajectory into a possible futures. Each painting can be understood as the capture of a random moment, never a certainty, never a conclusion.
The Argument
News from a Quiet Moment
Slipstream’s expanse is determined by both, the whims of the underlying systems and my own, subjective judgement leading to a constant emergence of forms and connections, as well as contradictions, giving it a non-linear, non-chronological stream with a cybernetic character.