Below: Colony Collapse II / Vector Composition
Thursday, 7 January 2021
Wednesday, 6 January 2021
PERIPHERAL VISIONS / 01
In the case of my 'analog' art ( canvas, paints, pencils, paper ), I've already mentioned that I rarely use sketchbooks. That is, when I start a piece of work, it's usually with the intention of getting it to a completed state ( whatever that is, it's a bit of a philosophical question ). Cont'd...
Below: Datastream Arabesque Glitch Experiments / Vector Composition
In contrast, my digital / vector art, is exactly the opposite. Each finished piece has dozens of staging points, most of which are to be found around the edge of the work space, off-screen. Re-opening a file containing not only the main piece, but all the iterations that later became the main piece, it's sometimes easy to conclude that these discarded elements and compositions can be worthy of re-examination. Sometimes they can even preferable to the artwork that I decided was the final-final version.
( Occasionally, even a discarded fragment can be worthy of inclusion, when viewed with fresh eyes after the event ).
It could be late at night, you're listening to your favourite podcast, or an album, and you are assembling and configuring shapes and forms, and editing colours, and thinking of depth and space. Sometimes you are not thinking at all, just simply throwing things around.
What these iterations represent, are slices of time.
Below: Datastream Arabesque Glitch Experiments / Vector Composition
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Friday, 1 January 2021
2021
WELCOME
Yes, I'm still here. So are you. I've been very busy off the grid in 2020, using lockdown to work on other projects in other disciplines.
How has it been for you?
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Below: Sheet Metal Experiment, Vector Drawing, 2021.
Monday, 12 October 2020
I'M BACK
NOTICE: 2020 kind of got in the way. Normal service will be resumed as quickly as possible.
Probably on January the 1st when we all go 'what the hell just happened'?
Friday, 2 October 2020
MOXY DOWNTOWN NY : SCREENGRAB
'NO SERVICE'
Friday, 10 July 2020
CURRENT GROUP EXHIBITION: MYTHOLOGIES, CHANIA, CRETE
MY POSTCARD DRAWINGS NOW IN THE PERMANENT COLLECTION OF THE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART, CHANIA.
Thursday, 18 June 2020
HIGH-VIZ FUTURISM
Thursday, 30 January 2020
BREX-GLITCH
Wednesday, 29 January 2020
ALEXI K: DIGITAL, ANALOG, MATERIAL ARTIST
DIGITAL
Photo courtesy of Moxy Downtown Hotel, NYC.
MATERIAL
Tuesday, 28 January 2020
LOS TRES AMIGOS
We constantly stopped to take photos. At several points we overtook the same three guys walking a long stretch of the Midlands towpath. It's always weird when you see people walking purposefully on long empty stretches of the waterways. As my friend pointed out, you need to live near the canal to know how to use it.
We talked to the guys once we got back out into the open, and I made sure they were all happy for me to put the shots on my social media, and they were fine about it. I seriously think the pic of them in the tunnel is the best photo I've ever taken.