“FLESH WAS THE REASON OIL PAINT WAS INVENTED” DE KOONING major studio project.

“ F L E S H WA S T H E R E A S O N O I L PA I N T WA S I N V E N T E D ” D E KO O N I N G

major studio project

concept

painting as a form of creating flesh -> bringing things to ‘life’

myth of Pygmalion -> Greek myth about a sculptor-king who fell in love with the statue he create

explore ideas about creation, dimension, digitality & space

execution

Live painting-performance overlaid with a 3-d projection on the columns in 12f 6e16th

execution

sketches

Type I: timed animation using 3-d modelling overlaying; separate bones combining to form the final shape of a skull which will ‘leap’ from the wall

sketches

sketches

Type 2: using openCV edge detection to overlay polygonal pixel shapes while painting to transform the flat colour into 3-D …………(not sure what the final shape will be though, if using this)

T H A N K Y O U

to be continued…..?