One painting, diminished light * twisight
Lintel 39 - Oil on canvas - 2010
A contemporary reflection on art from the past.
Loosely based upon a Mayan Sculpture from theLintel 39. The works is a bloodletting ritual where the participant quests and seeks advice from the other world via a double headed serpent which is capable of transcending both realms.
This is a Twisight oil painting which explores humanities dual vision systems. Rods and cones. Cones give us focusable colour high fidelity perception, while our rods give us low luminance peripheral motion sensitive vision. Day and night vision. Art has throughout history neglected our night vision aspect. Yet there are more rods in our retinas then there are cones.
By here accommodating these two distinct vision systems, oil painting moves beyond the realm of a frozen image, and becomes time based. Not a cinematic enchained time. but a sideways expansion of time where the imagery is static but different aspects of it shift through their hierarchy of our attention.
A gif animation (simulated) is seen in the large view mode. (photography is additive luminance, while our eyesight is not - hence this is similar to the experience of seeing the painting, but far different from it)
Loosely based upon a Mayan Sculpture from theLintel 39. The works is a bloodletting ritual where the participant quests and seeks advice from the other world via a double headed serpent which is capable of transcending both realms.
This is a Twisight oil painting which explores humanities dual vision systems. Rods and cones. Cones give us focusable colour high fidelity perception, while our rods give us low luminance peripheral motion sensitive vision. Day and night vision. Art has throughout history neglected our night vision aspect. Yet there are more rods in our retinas then there are cones.
By here accommodating these two distinct vision systems, oil painting moves beyond the realm of a frozen image, and becomes time based. Not a cinematic enchained time. but a sideways expansion of time where the imagery is static but different aspects of it shift through their hierarchy of our attention.
A gif animation (simulated) is seen in the large view mode. (photography is additive luminance, while our eyesight is not - hence this is similar to the experience of seeing the painting, but far different from it)
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