As the dioramas that I make take a very long time to generate, I wanted to experiment with a quicker form of painting imagery generation. Inspired by our talk on imposing rules on ourselves and thinking about my thematic concern of deconstruction of apocalyptic and dystopic/utopic ideas, I thought it would be interesting to draw up some grids that I could fill in using a random process of colour ordering and selection. Using graphite pencils in a range of softnesses, I started colouring in a 10 by 6 square grid by randomly picking the pencils out from a pile and making sure I didn't use the same pencil to colour in two adjoining squares except on the diagonal. I really like the way this has turned out and the way it suggests there was an original image but that this has been lost through the deconstruction method. I also tried to do one using colour, but I don't think it works as effectively. I think the graphite version has more subtlety in tonal variations and therefore has a quiet aesthetic beauty which should complement my other work, whereas the colour version is more garish and I think will fight too much for attention. I will be really interested to see how this idea works on a larger scale and how it will interact with my generated imagery.
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