Emergent Faces
In an earlier post I looked at how with my abstract art especially I employ a philosophy of embracing emergence. The very processes I use to create these postmodern contemporary digital fractal abstracts, take on that Zen like quality, and accommodate the science of emergent systems. Unexpected patterns emerge. The unplanned has as much to do with it, as the planned, and the result is often a kind of aesthetic Rorschach test. It’s not necessarily about what I make in the art, it’s what the viewer sees emerging from within it, and that becomes quite personal and individualized. Many times faces are among the patterns that emerge. Occasionally I’ve played with these emergent faces, for example, Chester the Cybernetic Owl emerged out of this blending of layers, and filtering of various types, including mirroring and kaleidoscopic effects, as well as a little color enhancement along the way. I didn't originally set out to create Chester, rather he emerged in a somewhat spontaneous way, almost as if he sought to come into existence, and found me as the willing artistic receptor to carry out that creation. As soon as I saw him, his story emerged in my mind.
In an earlier post I looked at how with my abstract art especially I employ a philosophy of embracing emergence. The very processes I use to create these postmodern contemporary digital fractal abstracts, take on that Zen like quality, and accommodate the science of emergent systems. Unexpected patterns emerge. The unplanned has as much to do with it, as the planned, and the result is often a kind of aesthetic Rorschach test. It’s not necessarily about what I make in the art, it’s what the viewer sees emerging from within it, and that becomes quite personal and individualized. Many times faces are among the patterns that emerge. Occasionally I’ve played with these emergent faces, for example, Chester the Cybernetic Owl emerged out of this blending of layers, and filtering of various types, including mirroring and kaleidoscopic effects, as well as a little color enhancement along the way. I didn't originally set out to create Chester, rather he emerged in a somewhat spontaneous way, almost as if he sought to come into existence, and found me as the willing artistic receptor to carry out that creation. As soon as I saw him, his story emerged in my mind.
After Chester, one day the Face of Lorvious emerged in a like manner, then much later the Creepy Snowman came along. I’ve now decided to make this into a project. The Emergent Faces Project is all about taking this tendency for faces to emerge from my image manipulations, and playing with it to the point of seeking such emergent faces. I am now collecting these Emergent Faces into its own new series, which will include the older emergent guys like Chester, Lorvious, the Creepy Snowman, and more recently the Flukish One, plus many more new faces emerging from the exploratory image manipulations I use in my creative processes. This project will likely be an ongoing one for a while. As new faces emerge, I will add them to this Emergent Faces Collection.