Arts, culture, and Divine inspiration are a garden. From seeds of creativity grows a tree with many fruits. Power can be had by many means, but Ultra Real Power comes from cultural contribution. Let’s create the future of art, the unknown fruit, and taste it together in a beautiful future. Ultra Real Power is a Digital Sculptural Assemblage, made from 3D scans taken around NYC and other urban centers, volumetric scans of my own sculptures and paintings in the studio, and scans of historical art works from institutions.
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Digital sculptural assemblage
#Retouched explores the disparate meanings of touch and the act of something being retouched. Touching a person’s body can be comforting, empathetic and a form of connection; however, it can also be unwelcoming, forceful, and demeaning. Retouching is a technique that makes alterations to an image, eliminating an imperfection and implying that an improvement has been made. We have the ability to change ourselves and our environments in the physical and digital spaces, but who are we ameliorating for? Using AI powered or synthetic intelligence to use different techniques such as clone stamping, zoom quilting, liquifying, photo compositing, and digital matte painting, the artworks use a hybridization of recognizable signs, pop culture symbols, and androgynous figures that shift between the familiar and uncanny, the primordial and the
futurist, nostalgia and hope.
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#Retouched was organized in partnership with CADAF.