GATE #8

GATE is an artwork created in December 2022 using a digital moiré pattern technique, which consists of two overlapping images to generate the illusion of a third. The animation pictures an imaginary gate designed as a folding screen, with an arched doorway at its center and diamond-shaped windows on each side. The visual style of GATE draws from 16-bit era computer graphics and optical art to create a seemingly paper-thin architecture playing with our sense of perspective, light, and depth. GATE is informed by many of my experiences of early computer graphics and videogames at a young age. The artwork also considers the affinity for escapism, dreamscapes, symbolic architectures, and limina...View all