Cornælhuys 4/18 - Fertile Féroce

A timeless bridge between 2 artists from the 16th Century and Jæn from the 21st. Frans Huys, a Belgian illustrator (1522-1562), made splendid illustrations of grotesque masks from Flemish sculptor Cornelis Floris de Vriendt (1514-1575), printed to provide stone carvers and others with interesting faces to adorn buildings. The tradition of mascarons date back to Ancient Greece, surviving until the Renaissance through the Roman Empire's vestige. Through the printing press, and then digitisation, I could find and restore them carefully, to then add my surreal magic, encode the originals in the audio frequencies of the minimalistic melodies I composed, generate AI versions to briefly replace th...View all