For my conference project, I ended up with five sketches inspired by Malevich and decided to be more subtle than I expected with the interactive qualities. I feel that Malevich’s work already displays interactive qualities just based on how he places his shapes and I tried to do the same using processing as my medium. In efforts to promote some subtle interactive qualities to bring Malevich’s style into the present, I used mousePressed to swap colors in each sketch.
Through the evolution of my project, I developed a clearer vision for my series of Malevich-inspired sketches. I used a more consistent color palette and learned how to make vertex drawings in my pieces. The color palette made each installment of my series go well together and help abstract the off-black and off-white colors that are a part of each sketch. In Malevich’s paintings, it is rare that you will find shapes that are not a little off in their positioning. This makes his work look more abstracted and chaotic but his consistency in this chaos makes his work still all go together smoothly. Vertex drawings really helped add this abstraction to my own pieces and help me stay true to Malevich’s asymmetrical attitude in his art.
In every sketch, I went in with a vision but each time I ended up with a completely different sketch. Vertex drawing influenced this element of surprise in each piece because I would hack into my own vertex drawing code and change the numbers in subtle ways to see the big differences that could be made. Only sometimes, I wound up with a vertex drawing that I had in mind. I feel that I tend to overthink in my art and while I appreciate Malevich’s randomness, that does not come so naturally to me. Hacking into my own code really helped motivate some chaos in my sketch that gave it an abstraction that could match Malevich’s philosophy. Throughout the process of making my sketches, everything that went wrong or strayed away from my initial vision ultimately influenced something else going right.
My conference project had to be put on hold for a week because of a big conference paper I had due and with all that stress I had little inspiration. Right when I finished my conference paper, I immediately felt ready to revamp this conference project. I was surprised by my sudden inspiration and ended up making these sketches below that I feel very proud of.
Preview of – Ruby Alioto “Abstracted Interaction”:
Kazimir Malevich “Suprematist Composition”:
My sketchbook:
Although my conference project had to be put on hold, I still feel like I did well with my time management. I actually can strive under pressure work-wise because I like having things to do and I like to keep myself busy. I did not feel too much stress and I just let myself have a little time away from my project so that I could come back to it refreshed and motivated to do it right.
I really enjoyed doing this project. I was initially very inspired by Baldessari but his work led me to Malevich through some research and I’m very glad that I found his paintings and stuck to this assignment. His work really encompasses the style of art that I would like to reflect when processing is my canvas. Through the first trial of this assignment, I made work that I liked but did not love. My first few sketches did not stay true to Malevich’s asymmetrical abstraction and consistent color palette. I wanted to learn more about Malevich’s attitude on his paintings and really do a better job of representing these aspects in my own work. I feel that I reached this goal through some unexpected routes and ultimately really loved working on this project.
- I used variables to swap colors which added an interactive quality to my work.
- I used a consistent color palette to shadow Malevich’s work and messed with the interaction of these colors by using mousePressed.
