Cielo y nubes binarias

Binary sky and clouds is a combination of static elements with moving layers. The ratio of some of these changes over time with color variations.

Technical, aesthetic and conceptual development:

To create the work, I was inspired by the artists George Nees and Lillian Schwartz, mainly in the distribution of elements whose relationship generates forms on a larger scale.

Exploring different changes in the figures through variables, I found values ​​that were interesting to me along with their changes in shape and color generating new combinations.

During the development of the image, a central point was to maintain an aesthetic close to the idea of ​​“computer”. The work comprises a loop limited to the viewer’s desire, typical of current technological capabilities, which allow us to enjoy them for as long as we deem necessary, in parallel with Valéry’s description (describing the appreciation of a musical work) “We evoke them when and where we please.”1

There is a contrast between the main figures in the center of the image (strongly inspired by works by Lillian Shwartz), and the pattern or texture of the background, which constantly changes due to the elements that compose it. Data processing capacity adapted to image creation is a technology that has a central place in the products we consume every day; I was interested in maintaining a “digital” or “virtual” appearance using patterns analogous to “binary” while taking advantage of loop generation to create a dynamic texture.

“The ‘plastic arts’ or ‘visual arts’ as they say now instead of the traditional ‘fine arts’, tend to be arts not only of space, but also of time - if only because of their dependence on the story that gives them life.2”

1.- VALÉRY, Paul. ([1960], 1999). The conquest of ubiquity (1928).

2.- HEINICH, Nathalie. ([2014], 2017). “The work beyond the object” in The paradigm of contemporary art: structures of an artistic revolution.