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艺术家Shawn Smith的工作将数字世界与现实结合。他认为我们虽然在电视或电脑上看见大自然，但实际上他们都是像素。过去几年中，艺术家一直在创造这些与自然有关的动物和事物形象。颜色经过提炼，一些细节被省略，最后以一个抽象的形式展示出来。艺术家认为他做的是以可再生材料为原料的人造自然物。原料是木材的胶合板以及中密度纤维板。艺术家将其切成块，并上色，最后组合起来，形成一个有更多深度的二维图像般的三维雕塑。
这些亲力亲为的手工艺术品反映了“现代人类发展的基本原则—生物，技术，文化，科学” Shawn Smith如是说：“我非常着迷这些事件在历史中的重要性以及关联性。这作品是不从屏幕看世界的首先经验。”
Shawn Smith:“My work investigates the slippery intersection between the digital world and reality. Specifically, I am interested in how we experience nature through technology. When we see images of nature on TV or on a computer screen, we feel that we are seeing nature but we are really only seeing patterns of pixilated light.For the past few years, I have been creating a series of “Re-things.” These whimsical sculptures represent pixilated animals and objects of nature. I find images of my subjects online and then create three-dimensional sculptural representations of these two-dimensional images. I build my “Re-things” pixel by pixel to understand how each pixel plays a crucial role in the identity of an object. Through the process of pixilation, color is distilled, some bits of information are lost, and the form is abstracted. Making the intangible tangible, I view my building process as an experiment in alchemy, using man-made composite and recycled materials to represent natural forms.
In my building process, I start with a full sheet of material like plywood or MDF and cut it into 1/2″ strips of varying lengths–typically 1/2″ to 2′ long. I then hand dye each strip of wood individually with dyes mixed from ink and acrylic paint. I mix each color by hand to create a huge palette of colors in order to give the sculpture more depth and visual interest before assembling the object.
My conceptual and material practice explores identity, color, labor, technology, and science. As an object maker, I am interested in relating these concepts back to the symbiotic connection between the hand and the “thing.” This relationship is a basic principle in the development of the modern human–biologically, technologically, culturally, and scientifically. I am fascinated by the importance of the “thing” in our history and how this relationship is changing with technology, as we become more removed from first hand experience by observing the world through a screen.”
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