Another hectic Friday grind completed. I knocked out some gallery tasks and then mostly focused on thoughtfully processing photos for the HG piece—and interacted with a few friendly strangers along the way. For HG, I’m still working across several old digital methods, mixing in some AI to push things in a direction I don’t fully control. In the end, I reworked some very low-res graphics in a weird, intentional way—some old-school pixel screwing—to arrive at a pixel ratio I could actually manipulate. Printing the final digital rendering at high resolution both matters and doesn’t. Balance.
As of this evening, the driving color scheme for HG is purple, black, and white. It’ll be interesting to see how this new outer element deconstructs the original black base layer—a layer I’ve lived with for 12 years or more. This will be an exciting finish. I’m most hesitant about this piece because, in order to move it forward, I have to bury a part of it I’ve lived with for so long. But this is the direction. I’m sure some solutions to the work’s current mathematical and symbolic challenges still need to emerge—but the process will help unfold those as it comes together.
I output an interesting process portion from HG and created a set of four prints. They form a 3x4 grid matrix. They're pretty compelling. I especially like the six-piece black cube in the final configuration. These are the first finished works for the show… that won’t be in the show.
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