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Sparse Views: People


This is a family of sparse views. 

Something like 'sparsity' seems to come up a lot in art. Take glitch art and European impressionism. A common glitch art technique is the removal of contents from a scene via (say) black bars over an image. This is sparsity as removal of content. And in impressionism, images often look kind of blurred due to the "impasto" technique. This is sparsity as a lack of detail.

So here's my spin on sparsity. It's a glitchy, impressionistic approach. 

Iterating up and down an image, I stamp a canvas with an image's color and then 'scribble' this color to nearby points. ('Scribbles' are made by (1) interpolating between short horizontal lines, (2) adding horizontal and vertical noise to each interpolated point, and (3) then joining these points together with curves).  Visually, this extends an image's color - creating a blurred, impasto-like effect. The vertical distance between scribble rows is always larger than the height of scribbles. This creates gaps in the final image. Together, the scribbles and black space lead to a glitchy, impressionistic sparsity. 


Sparse Views of STAZ LINDES (YSL MODEL, SINGER OF PARANOYDS)

Sparse Views of DAVID BOWIE 

Sparse Views of ANNIE CLARK (SINGER of ST VINCENT) 

Sparse Views of BILL EVANS (JAZZ PIANIST) 
Sparse Views: People
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Sparse Views: People

These are a series of glitched, impressionistic portraits.

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