Char Davies: ROOT
Artist(s):
Title:
- ROOT
Exhibition:
Creation Year:
- 1991
Medium:
- Photographic transparency
Size:
- 42 x 72
Category:
Technical Information:
Hardware: Silicon Graphics.
Software: SOFTIMAGE.
Other Information:
The process of using interactive 3D software is a vital element of this work, for the technology allows me to visualize in ways intriguingly related to the content being explored. The three-dimensionality of the working space allows me to bypass the picture plane and create embodied form in virtual space, a process that denies tactility and permits a spatial correspondence between my body and the created form. By simulating the natural interaction of light and shadow with the material surface, I am able to create “realist” effects from our experience of the physical world, yet at the same time-most significantly-I can subvert these and cultural constructs (such as empty, geometric space) to fuse “figure” and “ground.”
