Bucolic Unease

An abstract tapestry of lines and textures, disturbing the pastoral idyll

DIGITAL ARTTEXTURED PHOTOGRAPHYABSTRACT

Fran

7/30/20242 min read

I continue working with the material I gathered during my countryside trip. This time, I chose a photo I took of a fence in the middle of a field that stretches into the horizon.

The first thing that came to mind, given the perfect line pattern created by the wooden posts, was to duplicate the layer, flip it horizontally and then vertically, and combine it with the original layer using the Darken Only mode.

In the end, I achieved a final result that exceeded my expectations. To my surprise, by altering the visibility of some layers each time, I created several versions that, although similar, each have enough merit to be part of the series.

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bucolic landscape
bucolic landscape
shade cloth
shade cloth
shade cloth
shade cloth
color grid
color grid
color grid
color grid
bucolic landscape flipped and combined
bucolic landscape flipped and combined

The result on its own is quite striking (and I might make a less manipulated version of this first stage later on). However, my original idea was to transform the image enough to make it practically unrecognizable, as abstract as possible. Since I saw that the lines would play an important role in this work, I used a couple of textures I had already employed in my piece "Rustborne Parasite," along with two of the color grids I created in Krita, cropped and scaled for this project.

As the work started to take shape, I added the texture of a wall from the rural house where I stayed, as well as other textures I frequently use for color and patina.

old wall
old wall
red wall
red wall
stained metal
stained metal
scratched metal
scratched metal