Statement on Digital Art
My approach to computer-generated art blends the physical textures of painting with the grid of pixels to create a hybrid visual language where flatness, tactility, and smoothness coexist. By manipulating layers with opaque, jagged mark-making, I develop a sense of impasto through stacking virtual marks. On the other hand, I utilize my knowledge of glazing techniques to subtly blend transparent layers of colors and images, achieving depth and complexity. Where oil and acrylic painting often freezes a moment, digital painting and animated GIFs can unfold narratives over time, with layers that appear, shift, or disappear in motion.

With its physical viscosity, the tactile nature of painting can form an intriguing interface with digital media, pixels, and animated GIFs. The materiality of paint and the immateriality of pixels represent two ends of a spectrum: one grounded in physical sensation and the other in virtual abstraction. In traditional art, viscosity and texture create a tangible connection between the artist and the viewer. In the digital realm, pixels form a different substance, something infinitely replicable, scalable, and intangible.

Digital art offers unique opportunities to explore the Internet Age’s fragmentation, tribal societal dynamics, and overwhelming noise of images and sound. GIFs and video art, in particular, with their looped repetition, can evoke a sense of both timelessness and transience, much like how traditional paintings often seek to capture fleeting moments. My work represents a hybridization of these mediums, reflecting the broader hybridity of contemporary life, where materiality and physicality intersect with the weightlessness of the Internet.