Glitch Koala
Watercolor and archival pen on paper, glitched in Procreate. In early 2020 I created a handful of drawings/paintings of Australian wildlife threatened by the out-of-control fires that ravaged large swathes of the continent’s wilderness, in late 2019. I even collaborated with some excellent experimental musicians from the DMV area, to have them interpret one of the animals through music, whose work was to be a part of a compilation to help raise money for Australian wildlife organizations. Unfortunately, by the time the project was near completion, the Pandemic hit, deeming the project seemingly irrelevant. The reason I say “seemingly” is because the truth is, making any attempt to help wildlife on any part of the planet is never a lost cause, especially on a continent whose unique biodiversity is declining at a more rapid pace than anywhere else in the world. So, COVID be damned, the compilation will be released in some form later this year, be it in physical format, digital or both. In the meantime I went back and reworked the drawings in Procreate on my iPad, using the “glitch” function. In many ways, the glitchy manipulation of the imagery lends itself to the music, but also creates a visual context of the animals existing in a modern, human-dominated, non-natural world, extremely prone and vulnerable to natural (and not-so-natural) disasters. The “glitching” of the images themselves weren’t just a matter of pushing a button on a fancy app, but instead a very carefully controlled chaos, with lots of thought and consideration put into the placement and composition of things. Looking forward to posting more from the series soon! #art #artwork #animalart #wildlifeart #drawing #watercolor #painting #australianwildlife #dmv4au #creativecollaboration #glitch #glitchart #digitalart #Procreate #ipad #artistsoninstagram #dmvartist #makeart #showyourwork
Glitch Koala
Watercolor and archival pen on paper, glitched in Procreate. In early 2020 I created a handful of drawings/paintings of Australian wildlife threatened by the out-of-control fires that ravaged large swathes of the continent’s wilderness, in late 2019. I even collaborated with some excellent experimental musicians from the DMV area, to have them interpret one of the animals through music, whose work was to be a part of a compilation to help raise money for Australian wildlife organizations. Unfortunately, by the time the project was near completion, the Pandemic hit, deeming the project seemingly irrelevant. The reason I say “seemingly” is because the truth is, making any attempt to help wildlife on any part of the planet is never a lost cause, especially on a continent whose unique biodiversity is declining at a more rapid pace than anywhere else in the world. So, COVID be damned, the compilation will be released in some form later this year, be it in physical format, digital or both. In the meantime I went back and reworked the drawings in Procreate on my iPad, using the “glitch” function. In many ways, the glitchy manipulation of the imagery lends itself to the music, but also creates a visual context of the animals existing in a modern, human-dominated, non-natural world, extremely prone and vulnerable to natural (and not-so-natural) disasters. The “glitching” of the images themselves weren’t just a matter of pushing a button on a fancy app, but instead a very carefully controlled chaos, with lots of thought and consideration put into the placement and composition of things. Looking forward to posting more from the series soon! #art #artwork #animalart #wildlifeart #drawing #watercolor #painting #australianwildlife #dmv4au #creativecollaboration #glitch #glitchart #digitalart #Procreate #ipad #artistsoninstagram #dmvartist #makeart #showyourwork