Art344 Digiscape - Artist Statement
In order to complete this assignment, I first had to understand what a “digiscape” meant to me. This took me through a mental journey through the possible definitions of “landscape” and then was to apply it in a digital format. Here is a slight description of my journey:
Digiscape à Digital Landscape à (Digital) Landscape à
Landscape = 6. An extensive mental view; an interior prospect: “They occupy the whole landscape of my thought” (James Thurber) (dictionary.com) à
...Extensive = 2. Of or relating to the cultivation of vast areas of land with a minimum of labor or expense.
...Prospect = 6. The act of surveying or examining. à
Digiscape = an extensive and digitalized mental view; an interior survey or examine...
This journey broaden my mind to sort through my thoughts to find a way to express my extensive mental view of the world.
As an environmentally conscious individual, I knew that it was only appropriate for my third project to reflect the environment in some way and when I found a neighbor’s planted bathtub, I knew what I wanted to do.
The image is meant to show the scene after the earth decided to start over – wipe the slate clean. Though I like my final print for this class, I have better ideas for the assignment but feel quite limited by my Photoshop (amoung other) skills.
In the future, I plan on maybe converting the image from its photograph-based appearance and into a more drawn/painted appearance and maybe that will help to smooth out my Photoshop attempts.
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