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Commander Ivory's Cape
Renata Janiszewska, 2022

Commander Ivory's Cape

In the crepuscular shade of the garden we found crowded legions of exquisite spikes ensorcelled by the ivory master. Shedding his carapace (which resembled the wig of a judge from a Martian court of law), all olive, turquoise and bronze mahogany, he swept waves of lavender-scented mauve green bushes to one side as he commanded the crimson statue to come to life. All wonderment and tears, she melted into an intoxicatingly gorgeous shape and sighed.
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Renata Janiszewska

For artists, new media can create two things. The first is a novel set of tools to represent established visual ideas; the shiny new oil paints of the Renaissance led to shiny new renditions of the Baptism of the Virgin. The second is the realization that new materials create new art forms, which both annihilate and embrace the old ones. Picasso fractured the constructed object-in-space of the Renaissance, thanks to the museums. Now, not lapis lazuli in linseed oil, but light, not found objects, but found digital configurations. The unfolding of art through time is both metaphorical and simply concrete. A work of digital art starts at 0:01 and finishes at 1:22 and we can prove it. Can the matter of art be created and destroyed? My work is an ongoing meditation on the shape of this question. My vocabulary of metamorphizing forms, textures, colors and paradoxical spaces may suggest some soaring metaphysical intelligence, or a small moment on an ancient forest floor where the heroine is getting her nails very dirty digging into a story. I create my own soundtracks, and animate my own images. Forms, sounds and time appear as a single organism to the viewer, but appearances are deceptive. They are a result of my method - "Disegno" as they used to call it.

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