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Diane Vetere
do you see what i see 15
36 inches x 36 inches
2D painting, pigment print
ARTIST STATEMENT
In the fall of 2005, as a result of their interest in my previous work
and techniques, a class of college students taking an introductory
digital art class invited me to give a virtual tutorial. To give them a
taste of how I work, I proposed “painting machines” that they could
create by recording actions using standard Photoshop filters. During
the development of the tutorial, I discovered bugs in a couple of the
standard Photoshop CS2 filters, which at first annoyed me because
they could compromise the tutorial, but then they intrigued me. The
combination of the bugs and the “painting machine” technique that I
developed for the students resulted in this series of work.
Electronic Art and Animation Catalog Art Gallery Artworks
CONTACT
Diane Vetere
Independent Artist
340 Clinton Street
Toronto, Ontario M6G 2Y8 Canada
ddv@ican.net
TECHNICAl STATEMENT
The work began with a low-resolution photograph used as a color
base and then was manipulated entirely in Adobe Photoshop CS2
using standard filters and exploiting certain bugs. One of those bugs
is that the cutout filter breaks with certain complex images, returning
what can only be described as shards. The other is that the shear
filter returns straight or angled lines instead of curves if the filter has
not been run at least once outside an action.