Wanda OliverI’ve been heads down working on a new project. Quadrangle of My Being is essentially complete. Here's the final WIP. There are a few release details to be sorted out, but I expect to publish the work in this upcoming week.
This project began as an exploration of how human beings across all sorts of cultures respond in remarkably similar ways in terms of associating sounds with shapes. That’s a project I will have to come back to. Along the way, the outputs started to remind me of landforms seen from high above and topographical maps of imaginary terrain - the terrain of my own being.
Though the work is algorithmic, I have used elements of my analog photographic work as a bits and pieces of some layers. These works are chemigrams, and are generative in their own right, arising from semi-controlled chemical reactions on dark room paper. These chemigrams are the first topos of my being, and bringing them into this work emphasizes something I have long wanted to pursue - the rich interplay of my analog and digital practices in search of unexplored territory.
Generative Photography@WandaOliver A bit of generative photography there