Abstract Bookshelf of Orbs (versions 1,2,4, & 5)

These pieces are purely abstract and completely digital with no input from traditional media. I’m playing with depth in an almost totally abstract sense because of how the objects are placed in seeming progressions of foreground to background, thus making sense in a three dimensional way while eliminating all lighting, curvature, and shadow. I read somewhere that the more abstract the art of a culture or society is, the more totalitarian it is because abstractions in any field abstract from the natural or manmade world and reduce the forms, shapes, colors, and objects to basics and bold colors. I suppose there may be some truth to that, but the point of this blog is to, by and large, escape politics, economics, and government. I just find myself fascinated by abstract art. There is so much more that can be done with it.

I was thinking of Hans Hoffman’s ideas about tensions between objects, or painted areas, on a picture plane in this series. I was particularly intrigued by how the three circular shapes don’t overlap each other and have space between each other, but they still convey a sense of foreground and background. The circle in the middle of the picture plane is almost like the center of attention while it still is sensed as a background object. It could be the planes surrounding the circles that help to give the sense of depth. The weight of the image tends towards the lower left hand side of the picture because of all the spaces being filled with different colors and shapes.