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Renata Janiszewska, 2022

Land of a Thousand Yellows

VIDEO HAS SOUND HOVER CURSOR OVER VIDEO TO UNMUTE Do you experience this vision as a melody of innocent pleasure? A carnival of mirrored dervishes and whizzing space tunnels? You understand nothing. In the beginning, we were the golden measure, the geometry of fragrance surmounting the monstrous death cell. Inflamed to bursting pinkness, it forever devoured. But we were the million warriors of the triumphant light! We tore into the thing, dragging it purple to the eight cardinal directions. We splintered electrically blue and yellow, we blossomed red on both flanks and burst forth and retreated until the purple twilight fell and the green daggers of the garden parted for the beloved sky. The so called tunnel is our one eye. The speed is our flower, our true gold, at last on the alchemist's table.
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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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