Daniel Moore – The kingdom of Jawaka

Description

Artist Statement

As atoms are the building blocks of all matter so are textures the building blocks of everything visual. My non-AI digital paintings begin either by creating a base texture from scratch, or from a photograph. Once the base texture is created, pieces of the texture are painted into shapes using digital tools.
Unencumbered by preconception, the shapes are spontaneously manipulated. New shapes may be created until a recognizable thought emerges. At this point the piece takes on its own energy making me simply the creative tool to bring the painting to fruition. Besides this technique I do still enjoy digital photo manipulation and collage. I find inspiration in the work of H R Giger, Z Beksinski, and O Cardin among other artists. After watching a video of Cardin execute an entire painting I was so impressed with his mark making that I thought I would try to emulate his style digitally. I stumbled upon this technique of using a base texture to create an entire
digital painting.

Artist Biography

Daniel Moore, born 1954 in Massachusetts, USA BFA in graphic design, Philadelphia College of Art, 1976 During a career of exacting technical illustration and graphic design I was seeking an outlet for more creative freedom and ambiguity in my work. Excited by digital photographers who manipulate images and add textures for various effects I began to experiment. I began using various methods to create textures to combine with digital photos. It is my opinion that there is no master intelligence that is controlling anything, but instead that each animate or inanimate being/object is the sum of all of its energies the essence if you will. Size, color,
happiness, sadness, solidness, liquidness, personal opinion, public opinion, history, beauty, ugliness, habits, and many more characteristics are all energies that may be involved. I wondered what it would look like if the energies were visible, and then assumed the energies would appear as textures.