Art Pieces Batch 4 by Oliver Endahl
This is the fourth batch of digital art pieces I’ve created.
I generally start my process of creating digital art by making a color palette. Using an iPad, an Apple Pencil and the Adobe Fresco app, I’ll create a variety of colors on a blank canvas. After that, I’ll inject fragments of various photographs I’ve shot into the document, and then I’ll add digital paint, and manipulate those images.
For some of these pieces I have a lot to say and for others, I prefer to keep them up to interpretation.
(This post gets continually updated as I create new work)
Zooey Kraemer in “Efflorescere Decoherence”
This piece is titled “Efflorescere Decoherence” and it features Zooey Kraemer.
“Efflorescere” is Latin for “begin to bloom” or “flourish”, and “decoherence” is a process in quantum mechanics.
When a quantum system interacts with its surroundings, like an air molecule, light, or heat. This interaction causes the quantum system’s information to spread out and become entangled with the environment. As a result, the system loses its quantum "superposition" capability and begins to behave like a normal, everyday classical object. (Which we humans can then interact with.)
I intentionally went into creating this work with themes of nature, balance, spring and wind in mind. Spring, while being about rebirth, is also about death. A garden itself is in a constant balance of life and death which creates the reality of the garden in the first place. While new plants are sprouting, they draw from plants of the past, now decomposed in the soil. Bugs, birds, and other creatures continually participate in a cycle of life and death through the means in the garden, which in turn, changes the structure of the garden itself. A garden is a great example of balance because life and death constantly occur and support the creation of the system as a whole.
The process of quantum “decoherence” compelled me because it also falls in line with this theme. When decoherence occurs, it isn’t “destructive” as much as it is a process of “reallocating.” Yes, some information is lost, but it is redistributed, just like in a garden.
I was drawn to combining these two words in the title for this work because my intention for the piece was to visually and emotionally convey these themes of balance, and redistribution.
Alyssa Fenolio
Deryn Beaman
Carmen Callahan in “Recall”
Deanna Reeves in “Connections”
Sometimes when creating I go in with intention, and other times, it’s like the work itself gets revealed to me during the process. You’re functioning off total instinct. That feels right, that doesn’t feel right, and you just “know” when it’s right.
When the work is completed, then the concept is revealed. For this piece featuring dancer Deanna Reeves, that was the case. Only once it was finished did I figure out what I was trying to tell myself during the creation process. For me, the theme of this piece is about how nothing humans do is isolated, it all comes from the actions of those who existed before us.
Sara
Valeska Miller and Sara
Carmen Callahan
Lara Bothwell
Valeska Miller
Alyssa Fenolio
The piece below of Carmen features 2 different versions.
Carmen Callahan
Carmen Callahan
Kathleen Dahlhoff
Zooey Kraemer in the piece titled “The Anthropic Principle”
In this piece titled “The Anthropic Principle” featuring Zooey Kraemer, I was inspired by the “observation” effect in quantum mechanics and wanted to reflect that in the work.
In quantum mechanics, when you observe a particle, it actually forces the particle to change its own state. In a way, the fabric of the universe itself “reacts” to being witnessed. The left side of this piece is supposed to be those unobserved particles and the right side are those same particles, but observed.
Zooey Kraemer is featured towards the right side of the frame in the area with the swirling colors. I intentionally framed her there because if you look at the piece as a whole, she doesn’t stand out and blends into the big picture. You have to intentionally observe her figure in order to discern her, which further reflects the theme of observation.
More artworks to come,
-Oliver Endahl