Char Davies: ROOT

Artist(s):

• Char Davies

Title:

ROOT

Exhibition:

• SIGGRAPH 1991: Art and Design Show

Creation Year:

1991

Medium:

Photographic transparency

Size:

42 x 72

Category:

• 2D & Wall-Hung

Technical Information:

Hardware: Silicon Graphics.
Software: SOFTIMAGE.

Other Information:

The process of using interactive 3D software is a vital element of this work, for the technology allows me to visualize in ways intriguingly related to the content being explored. The three-dimensionality of the working space allows me to bypass the picture plane and create embodied form in virtual space, a process that denies tactility and permits a spatial corre­spondence between my body and the cre­ated form. By simulating the natural inter­action of light and shadow with the mate­rial surface, I am able to create “realist” effects from our experience of the physi­cal world, yet at the same time-most sig­nificantly-I can subvert these and cultural constructs (such as empty, geometric space) to fuse “figure” and “ground.”