Before Wake
"Before Wake" is a depiction of a young adult asleep on the bed just before dawn breaks. She is loosely tucked under the blanket, deep within dreams as she sleeps on her side, with the lights left on as a result of her exhaustion from work.
The work is a response to an instinctive inner fascination towards the aesthetic qualities of traditional impressionist paintings and abstract image making, drawing its parallels with the abstract yet informatic nature of the images from modern era digital imaging equipment, such as Xray, Lidar, RGB waveforms, Vectorscopes, etc. At its subconscious core, it is a search for a digital aesthetic language that emulates and pays homages to the visually evoking qualities of traditional impressionist textures and abstract brush strokes. In practice, the work is an aesthetic exploration into digital image composition using digital tools, image processing methodologies, manipulation algorithms and processes in hopes to unveil its inner poetics.
The image is composed by first capturing digital photographs of the subject matter from various different angles using a digital camera. The photographs were then brought into a photogrammetry software to be processed into 3D spatial data. The software analyses and compares all the acquired photographs to determine its camera positions relative to one another, which will then be used to estimate the three-dimensional coordinates of all of the points in the scene using triangulation algorithms. The resulting product of this process is a set of data points in digital space that very closely resembles and represents the actual scenery in the form of a point cloud. The point cloud data is then further manipulated and abstracted using various digital methods and techniques, which will eventually be reprojected to compose the final work.
The work probes into the representation reality via the digital lens and its practices. In contrast to the representations of a realistic immediate reality as pursued by modern computer graphics and digital capture devices, an abstracted approach has been adopted. Errors in data capture, imperfections, image manipulation algorithms and digital noise, are not obscured but rather exaggerated, amplified and integrated into the image making process, revealing its inner artifices and clockwork while suggest an alternative form of charm and appreciation.
The work is a response to an instinctive inner fascination towards the aesthetic qualities of traditional impressionist paintings and abstract image making, drawing its parallels with the abstract yet informatic nature of the images from modern era digital imaging equipment, such as Xray, Lidar, RGB waveforms, Vectorscopes, etc. At its subconscious core, it is a search for a digital aesthetic language that emulates and pays homages to the visually evoking qualities of traditional impressionist textures and abstract brush strokes. In practice, the work is an aesthetic exploration into digital image composition using digital tools, image processing methodologies, manipulation algorithms and processes in hopes to unveil its inner poetics.
The image is composed by first capturing digital photographs of the subject matter from various different angles using a digital camera. The photographs were then brought into a photogrammetry software to be processed into 3D spatial data. The software analyses and compares all the acquired photographs to determine its camera positions relative to one another, which will then be used to estimate the three-dimensional coordinates of all of the points in the scene using triangulation algorithms. The resulting product of this process is a set of data points in digital space that very closely resembles and represents the actual scenery in the form of a point cloud. The point cloud data is then further manipulated and abstracted using various digital methods and techniques, which will eventually be reprojected to compose the final work.
The work probes into the representation reality via the digital lens and its practices. In contrast to the representations of a realistic immediate reality as pursued by modern computer graphics and digital capture devices, an abstracted approach has been adopted. Errors in data capture, imperfections, image manipulation algorithms and digital noise, are not obscured but rather exaggerated, amplified and integrated into the image making process, revealing its inner artifices and clockwork while suggest an alternative form of charm and appreciation.
Digital Image
30720 x 8640
2021
30720 x 8640
2021
