The City That Never Sleeps

The City That Never Sleeps

One of the characteristics I like about using digital methods to create art is that you can easily start using a dark colour or even “black”, most conventional art works start with a white page or canvas and build tone and shade from this white base. Its not that common or easy to go the other way and start with a very dark canvas and then lighten it. So this is just one of the attributes that makes digital art different and interesting.

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This work is made up of several hand drawn elements.. brought together digitally which were specifically and individually created for this series of works. On their own they don’t really look much but when brought together digitally they work. There is also obviously scanned photographic and newspaper imagery in this series of images..

Obviously this is no particular location more a generic image of a city. Primarily this is a work about the city as a way of life.. the city as a myth.. its about what happens in the city.. and our ideas of a city. Viewed from space the city is probably our most obvious impact on the planet. The fortunes of the city are somehow synonymous with our fortunes as a race.

(But enough of this serious analytical stuff.. lets have some fun and launch into the creative imagination.. whoooosh)

It’s quite possible that beyond our planet someone or something is observing with interest the fungal like growth of our cities spreading out across the globe.

“No one would have believed in the early years of the 21st c that human affairs were being watched from across the timeless void of space.... “

Sleep well..

This image was published in Frontiers of Neuroscience a journal that brings together the most important research on a theme in neuroscience. The magazine is distributed to neuroscientists around the globe and the website is read by over 155,000.

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