Study: Beautiful Decay

During the last few days, I have been experimenting quite a bit. Today, I decided to show something I did with the following texture of a roll-up metal door, with some rust, which is included in my texture pack:

What I wanted to do was to significantly increase the deterioration of the door with an overlay of rusted, stained metal and some moss. For this, I selected three metal textures, also included in my pack, and two moss textures that were left out of the pack due to having too many defects.

I have always been very attracted to the effect that the elements of nature, over time, have on objects left to their own devices, perhaps because I grew up near an abandoned factory where my friends and I would venture to explore and play when we were children.

So, it’s no surprise that I bring that fascination into my work. In a world where cameras produce increasingly sharper images (not that this is a bad thing), I like to see what kind of "damage" I can cause in the images and how far I can go.

The combination of those five textures I chose for the composition yielded more results than I imagined, most of them visually quite consistent with the type of decay I was aiming for, and a few with more extravagant tones, but equally captivating.

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