just_left_alone_01

I couldn't resist keeping a couple of the pixelsort patterns from ASDF in this piece. All the same, what I needed and kept was mostly the gradients, the colors. In a certain sense - it's much harder to be an artist when you have total and complete freedom. To make whatever you want is freeing, but at the same time it's a great leveler: everything seems equally brilliant or stupid and all mashes together into one undifferentiated "but why that?" mass. I needed the ASDF algorithm here to give me some things I could and could not use. I especially like using it on images that I would absolutely refuse to use if they were recognizable, and so it forces me to use the unrecognizable, the zoomed-to...View all