Vigilar y sentir.
Brief description:
The program shows a random phrase each time it runs, the phrases are some that I chose from a text that Vera Molnar wrote, another inspired by a song by Rosalía and the others occurred to me while I was reading other materials. I simulated eyes that observe each sentence that is shown and the galaxy that is formed every time the program is played, as if there were a gaze watching each “feeling” that is presented.
Aesthetic and conceptual development:
I mainly focused on Vera Molnar and doing something with simple geometric shapes like her.
In an interview she says that her work is based on “monotony, symmetry and surprise” and I felt the same, especially when I made the ellipse I was surprised because I felt that it looked like a mini galaxy and it was something quite unexpected, experimenting with parameters I arrived at a result that I really liked, even though it was with monotonous and simple elements.
In another interview he said “There is an old and romantic idea that is called “intuition”. An artist has talent, a genius who sits with his drink and creates, and intuition does what he does. Sometimes he creates something good and sometimes not, but there is something that can replace intuition, and that is randomness.” which is called voyage au bout du rouge.
I had two ideas left, Valery’s idea of instantaneity and of enjoying art how and when someone wants: “we will feed on visual or auditory images that are born and disappear at the slightest gesture” a new phrase is shown with the simple gesture of running the program again, making it reborn/displayed when the person pleases. And Brea’s idea that “the activity itself is actually what produces us” made me think that not only was it me who produced this work, but that the work was producing me. I had a main idea to which I changed some other detail or subtlety, as I wrote the code it showed me new possibilities that I had not thought of at first and that I ended up discovering that they fit better with what I wanted to express, more than the idea that I had originally thought of.
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