Painting Reconstruction is a method of digitally capturing the creative dialog that creates a work of art and making it available for further elaboration by many individuals, thereby extending the creative process.
- Extend my current work in painting by exploring options for viewers to enter the painting as a space, both physical and virtual and travel back in time through the layers of the painting.
- Create projected/virtual painting structures/worlds from components of paintings that are explored by viewers as they move about within them.
- Displaying the completed paintings and scanned fragments of layers of the paintings as it was being constructed as part of the installation, the physical history of the painting is made visible and tangible. By making visible the now hidden layers of the process, it is as if the painting had a personal "memory" that could be made visible. The time line of the painting is liberated from the final state.
- The installation deconstructs and reconstructs the image simultaneously and interactively based on the viewers position in the coordinate space. The viewer's position in space also changes their place in time.
- Option 1:Projection onto multiple surfaces, or panels, or in the round (360 degrees) of images from the construction of a painting.
- Option 2: Create virtual reality worlds from images
- Create a physical interface to painting structures/worlds that is a magnification of an existing typical viewer behavior when encountering my work: getting very close and moving back repeatedly, changing perspective to examine and enter the work in a personal rhythm.
- Adjacent to, or contained within, the projection space are the completed paintings and scanned fragments of layers of the paintings as it was being constructed. (The virtual as tangible. The physical history of the painting made visible and tangible.