The Encounter
Acrylic on canvas and acrylic on wood panel (placed on top of canvas)
36x48x1.5 in (canvas) and 8x10x1 in (wood panel)
2023
This painting represents a 3D model in Blender collaging digital scans of a statue, plants, and a fire hydrant. I perceive it as a self-portrait, wherein I am rendered as an inert statue, arrested in a digital void. Illumination and a butterfly fall from an external source, escalating the clash between living vs inanimate and real vs artificial. A wood panel depicts a perspective from the butterfly’s viewpoint, and the panel is affixed on top of the canvas to accentuate the shifting spatial orientation within one pictorial space.
Detail shot
Select Polycam scans used for 3D modeling