Infatuating

This painting highlights a single trace of brightness in a grand scale of dark, naturally drawing attention to a small detail that could easily smother the rest as a whole. A single ray of hope like a golden glimmer over an impossibly dark horizon. To sink into the oblivion is never an option, thus clutching to that slim chance of change is the only source of hope. Fixation is as much solace as is it a necessity, until all that one can see is the dazzling traces of hope rather than the full shape of reality that takes form as a whole. There is beauty in it all, should one aim to witness and accept them.

Materials

Acrylic on Stretched Canvas

Size

70cm x 120cm x 4.5cm

Design

Milan Sipek

Milan sculpts the figure as a 3D model in virtual reality, decides the composition, perspective and density of the lines on the computer, and turns the lines into G-code, the path for a CNC machine. Fitted with 3D-printed nozzles, the machine lays the lines on stretched canvas in ribbons of acrylic paint, which then dry for one to three weeks so that the relief stays intact.

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