Artist Information:
Samuel Monnier
Piscataway, NJ
United States
Member Since: Jul 2009
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Artist Statement:
The theme of my work is
complexity. Most of the
natural objects around us
display an amazing visual
complexity. The bark of a
trunk, a rocky cliff, the
surface of a planet all show
lush details and omnipresent
fractal structures, what makes
their visual richness and
beauty.
The limitations of traditional
art media have always made it
difficult for artist to
capture this characteristic
feature of our visual
experience. In contrast, the
power of algorithmic and
generative techniques allow to
produce highly elaborate
abstract images. The main aim
of my work is to explore this
amazing richness of patterns
and structures, in an attempt
to capture the essence of
visual complexity.
The technique I have been
developing can be called
"pattern piling". Copies of a
simple pattern are created at
various size scales and are
merged together. This
technique allows to produce
images so complex that they
could never have been
imagined, let alone realized,
by a bare human mind. Each of
them forms a little abstract
world, an algorithmic world,
where shapes and colors are
combined according to simple
rules, yielding rich
structures in which the
observer's eye can wander and
get lost....
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Samuel Monnier's Free Artist Portfolio
Welcome to Samuel Monnier's Portfolio.
The theme of my work is complexity. Most of the natural objects around us display an amazing visual complexity. The bark of a trunk, a rocky cliff, the surface of a planet all show lush details and omnipresent fractal structures, what makes their visual richness and beauty.
The limitations of traditional art media have always made it difficult for artist to capture this characteristic feature of our visual experience. In contrast, the power of algorithmic and generative techniques allow to produce highly elaborate abstract images. The main aim of my work is to explore this amazing richness of patterns and structures, in an attempt to capture the essence of visual complexity.
The technique I have been developing can be called "pattern piling". Copies of a simple pattern are created at various size scales and are merged together. This technique allows to produce images so complex that they could never have been imagined, let alone realized, by a bare human mind. Each of them forms a little abstract world, an algorithmic world, where shapes and colors are combined according to simple rules, yielding rich structures in which the observer's eye can wander and get lost.... |
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