Horst Weber
Germany
Birth of a new world
2022 digital art
Birth of a new world.
My creative process is comparable to an improvisation in music.
How a musician uses the instrument to improvise a musical theme,
I have the computer program to improvise on a subject from photography.
Don’t play what’s there, play what’s not there. (Miles Davis)
On the basis of a given structure from a photography, or a abstract structure done by the computer I do different things with the help of computer programs turn a photograph into a painterly representation. Many emerge from this different variations on a topic. These variants are saved during the work process.
Through this technique I can generate impressionism, expressionism, pop art, photorealism… from a photo. If that’s not enough for me, I can mix these art styles, overlay them or show them together in one picture. As a result, the boundaries between artistic movements are disappearing. But I can also mix the abstract with the realistic.
In the present example, I have changed two artificially computer-generated circles in such a way that one circle becomes stylized waves, the second circle becomes a planet.
Now the work of alienating the colors begins with trial and error, the computer generates colors that a human being would not paint like this. Versions are duplicated and edited differently, only to be overlaid again afterwards.
Then I try other functions of the image processing program to further change the shape and color, or to discard them, many of these attempts are saved.
After hours of work, the two original circles have now become a world that is born out of water.And that is also the name of the work: Birth of a new world.