Libélulas

The work called “Dragonflies” is part of the abstract artistic creation that accentuates the use of digital media today. In it we can observe how these digitally captured abstractions make a visual displacement from the central points of light to the lines that emerge from them outwards, simulating a kind of wings and flutters, which generate those sensations of what is perceived only with sight and that cannot leave the places of impalpable, elevated and/or sublime. In this way, the work refers to dragonflies as paleoptera insects, that is, they cannot fold their wings into their abdomen and to be suspended in the air their fluttering must be constant and continuous. Subtle, thin bodies and long, fast wings are reflected in this creation.

Technical, aesthetic and conceptual development

The creation of my work called “Dragonflies” is based and inspired by the works of the artist and mathematician Ben Francis Laposky (1914-2000) created by him using the oscilloscope as a means of artistic creation. Most of his works have movements that leave traces of luminosity that draw the space, thus giving ghostly or ethereal figures, which, observing them in detail, generated sensations of lightness and suspensions that I took, adapted and channeled in the creation of “Dragonflies.”

As a digital work, Dragonflies, was executed within the P5J creative programming editor program, and the work is captured on a digital support with a black background that exposes the created figures that are suspended from white central points, which give a sensation of light, and from which varieties of white and straight lines are displayed, generating a visual effect of the movements of the wings.

Taking as references the ideas that Marshall Mc.Luhan declares in the text “The medium is the message” was how I was able to develop the idea of ​​capturing this work. Basically, develop the concept, as McLuhan said, that the “content” of a medium is another medium. In that magnificent sentence, I can enclose all digital creations as a current model of communicating with a massive impact that is faster to capture, and of course, much easier and faster to reach the general public. What do I mean with this? That today’s life connects us from a virtuality, perhaps even unthinkable at another time. The maelstrom led us to reconsider digital media as wise options to communicate, create, impact, socialize and express art!