Notes from my sketchbook.
Visual spectrum for animals?
Though the raw information is important in that it provides a basis for any further brain processing, once a picture is formed it moves on to the rest of the brain and is compiled with all the other sensory information that an animal has taken in. The end product is a perceived view of the surrounding world, otherwise known as an ümvelt… other sensory information! Smell? Taste? Touch? Hearing?… create pictures… How do I make that work?
Although all vertebrates utilize an eye that takes in images by focusing on an object in a camera-like manner, many have different eye shapes, and some do not possess all of the same structures (such as cones, which distinguish colors).
Light receptors… is the pixel the point where the light is received… the light receptor? X rays.
Painting the air. What would that look like? Air molecules = pixels… single colour…
Pure air……. Contaminated……. Variety of colour….. pollution…
In most Catarrhini (Old World monkeys and apes – primates closely related to humans) there are three types of color receptors (known as cone cells), resulting in trichromatic color vision. These primates, like humans, are known as trichromats. Many other primates and other mammals are dichromats, which is the general color vision state for mammals that are active during the day (i.e., felines, canines, ungulates). Nocturnal mammals may have little or no color vision. Trichromat non-primate mammals are rare… pixilation allows for colour changes…
Vertebrate animals such as tropical fish and birds sometimes have more complex color vision systems than humans; thus the many subtle colors they exhibit generally serve as direct signals for other fish or birds, and not to signal mammals… would mean what for the colours of a painting… justification?
Dogs, mammalian farm animals) generally have less-effective two-receptor (dichromatic) color perception systems, which distinguish blue, green, and yellow-but cannot distinguish oranges and reds… obvious colour selections for paintings?
Spectrum pixels… Snowflakes
Mutations are mistakes…..
The code is constantly changing.
DNA is a code written as A C G T……. Markers….. pixels… could use StitchSketch to create visual image of DNA… determine what colours represent A, C, G and T… shades?
Behind the scene conversations… Elena and I regularly debate late into the night and her questioning of me always drives my work forwards and in new directions… I think it important that some of these conversations are heard to help inform… for me they are relevant stitches…
ET.
I was wondering to myself why paint it? What does the paint do that the digital doesn’t? – in terms of the way it looks, and the way it is produced
Delivery system…
How are the pixels delivered digitally? what order do they arrive on the page? Left to right? Top to bottom? Or in some rgb colour order?
I remember you saying that you had to deliver the colours in a specific order because you had to wait for adjacent colour to dry.. How do you choose? Does one colour have more importance than another? Are you doing your “favourite” colours first or last?
Where would you start if all the squares were the same colour?
Texture: I can see the paint is textured… but obviously it isn’t on my screen, and wouldn’t be if i printed it.
I like the illusion of texture, and the fact that if you were to paint one of these squares digitally, you would require more than one pixel to imply that texture.
BJ.
Process…….. It’s all about process…….. Painting will get me to the next point…….. Logically……. Like stitching for you….. Doesn’t mean I’ve concluded yet……. And I would show the painting so the texture would be visible…… Like your material……. Which doesn’t translate in photos either…….
ET.
I know you like to paint, I’m talking about paint, but asking questions about it, and how you produce it and why,
And how the photons… the bits of energy that create the light and colour that we see….
How it might affect what you paint and think and how you see it… the implications of paint over digital images…..you’re the one that likes the research!
