Illustration & art work
Introduction
Falling and failing are a scary part of life that can just happen to us in an instant. But the ability of most people to grow stronger or to make something beautiful out of it is rather impressive.
In this project, I want to highlight the beauty and the humor of the moment of falling, that mid-air no-return point where we just keep our breath and hope for the best. But in art, it has a different meaning, in a digital society where everything and everyone has to be perfect, I want to sublimate the errors, the unexpected or or even the ugly.
This is a plea for imperfection!
Digital fail
Mistakes can be made by repetition or by trusting your work to others.
In this creation, I worked on both concepts by illustrating falling people in an artificial intelligence computer program originally designed to produce handbags. Based on a huge data bank of photograph's of bags.
As the drawings are far from being handbags, the results are quite strange and bizarre in the choice of textures and colors.
To make this work mine again, I reimagined the results with different textures and colors. By making it fast, mistakes are being made and the slicked feel of painting is removed to keep the essence of the artificial intelligence results.
Deep fall
To make mistakes, I need to lose the control of my work and my hand. So let’s have the printing machines and my impatience do the work for me!
I’ve made the original drawing by putting my marker in my mouth to get that shaky outcome. I decided to produce this work with lino printing. By gouging in the sheet, little spots are easy to forget and thus creating the mistakes that we can see on the final artwork.
A bit like putting the marker in your mouth, putting yourself in a physical difficulty is a good way to change your way of drawing and put you out of your comfort zone.
This concept is in the middle of this artwork. By closing your eyes, there is no possibility to know what and where you are making the drawing. A very abstract image results from this, even though if you can recognize some little parts of your original drawing.
The materials used here are also playing a role in this work. I reused an old piece of fabric that I used to make some screen printing tests on in the past. In addition to blue ink, that fades away at a certain point of your stroke, it results in a pretty unique piece of art.
Eyes closed
The backflip sequence
In this work, I wanted to highlight the humorous side of falling by illustrating someone attempting a backflip.
The fail is reinforced by the drawing technique. I’ve conducted some material experiments with ink and four different "brushes"
to get a nice stroke full of mistakes. I decided then to make a screen print out of one of the four experiments on an “imperfect” recycled sheet of paper.
The little shifts between the two layers, the white stroke that you can find in the blue ink and the tiny spots missing in one layer that you can find in the other, makes a completely weird result full of fails.
