Hill Digital Quilt Project
November 1- December 31, 2012
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Hill Digital Quilt collaborative projectI like viewers to have a say in some of my artistic decisions, to be the force of evolution as an active part of the creative process. So a very big "Thank you" to all the participating viewers who chose the winning photos from the dozens of candidates. These winners were transformed into the final panels, then printed, framed and installed in the Quilt Matrix located at the Hill Center on Capitol Hill.
Of course the project took longer to finish than anticipated, but I am very pleased by both the process and the outcome. It was quite interesting to see which images gathered the most votes - not always the ones I would have expected. My favorite transformed panel was always the one I had just finished, so the final few panels are my final favorites. This project was also a prototype for future collaborative art projects. I've been working with the concept of evolution for many years now, how images can morph into other images, or start whole families with generations and siblings and cousins. In the past I always had to provide the forces that transformed the images, as well as determine which would survive to the next generation. With the internet, the survival-of-the-fittest decisions can be crowd-sourced, providing a more natural force to work with. This project proved the concept to be viable. So again, many thanks to you all. I have many ideas for future projects, and hope you will participate again.
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Finished Panels
Iron Fence
Nearly all of the front yards on the Hill are surrounded by cast iron fences, and this is one of the finest motifs. I caught this one during the "Blue Hour", that time of evening when the sky has started to darken to a deep intense blue, but there is still enough light to see the forms and a bit of color. |
Florist Window, 11th Street
Surroundings, a marvelous florist enterprise that faces Lincoln Park, has a small glass add-on entrance. The windows of the original building in the lower left are reflecting trees from the park, and there are more tree reflections on the outside glass. Between the reflections are orchids and an arch for climbing things, proving a lovely selection of shapes and colors to work with. The original is a very small file, taken with the first version of Paper Camera, so the challenge here was to size it up considerably as I transformed it. |
Kitchen Tools
D Street Racks of shiny new kitchen tools at Hill"s Kitchen provided the starting point for this artwork. The original photo was taken with the Camera360 App, so it was a very small file that needed to be sized up a great deal. I really liked the original texture I had to work with, so I took great pains to maintain it throughout the processes. |
Old Firefighter
8th Street SE There are several of these wonderfully encrusted old fire hydrants scattered about in the neighborhood. I'll like to do a series on them. This one posed several interesting technical challenges: Click here for production notes. |
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