Artist
Richard L. Dana
Geographic Combustion
Date2016
MediumArchival pigment print
DimensionsImage Size: 36 × 36 in. (91.4 × 91.4 cm)
Framed Size: 46 1/2 × 46 1/2 in. (118.1 × 118.1 cm)
Credit LineDC Commission on the Arts and Humanities Art Bank Collection
Object numberDCCAH2017.010.1
ClassificationsPrints
Locations
- Homeland Security & Emergency Management (2720 MLK Jr Ave SE)
Description"Geographic Combustion" was created entirely on a desktop iMac computer using Photoshop. When the artist began creating digital art eight years ago the starting points for all work were black and white drawings or collages of abstract patterns manipulated and distorted on a copy machine. Within the first few months of experimenting with digital art he had scanned into his computer roughly 100 manipulated black and white patterns; it was these patterns which became the seeds for all of the artist’s digital work. In Photoshop the patterns are seriously colorized, bent, stretched, warped, imploded, exploded, massaged and caressed. A completed image can contain from 3 to more than 20 layers of intermediate imagery. The artist generally works on several series of imagery at the same time, and the various series cross-fertilize each other. For example, layers or crops from one image series can be transferred to another image series and altered. For that matter, older images and layers are also transferred to images under creation to then be substantially altered, or not.
This work is abstract. The true meaning is the same as the meaning of instrumental music like classical or jazz. The true meaning is whatever the viewer sees and feels.
