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Full Circle
2020
Spray Painted Galvanized Steel Pipe, Projection on Wood
~6' x 4' x 12'
At the outset, I was interested in translating pareidolic interpretations of image into physical environments. We evolved pareidolia to find patterns in our surroundings, a process that also occurs with convolutional neural networks (CNN), programs that create interpretative images based on the look of the input.
Uniting human and computer visions, I used a CNN to produce a video projection from process shots of an original, pareidolically inspired painting. This projection was matched with a physical texture generated from the first painting image.
Full Circle conceptualizes a future where technology enables immediate, physical expression of thought. How might these first thoughts produce something entirely alien, but also expose deeper empirical qualities of our metaphysical processes?
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![Original Painting — “Is This Not Happy?!” — Acrylic Paint on Canvas, 24” x 18”](https://cdn.myportfolio.com/7f012006b9e84bca3e05ed982f58eaf9/ca25f6b2-dac1-4085-b7cb-0aa6f47d8458_rw_1920.png?h=3382e51e2e9b208e01b926aeee9e8994)
Original Painting — “Is This Not Happy?!” — Acrylic Paint on Canvas, 24” x 18”
![CNN Composite Image](https://cdn.myportfolio.com/7f012006b9e84bca3e05ed982f58eaf9/149dbb08-4954-4a1d-9d62-44d5719a1ff6_rw_1920.jpg?h=8099e2b092171a74c48d6f9d04b32937)
CNN Composite Image
![Repeating Texture Derived from CNN Composite](https://cdn.myportfolio.com/7f012006b9e84bca3e05ed982f58eaf9/16691ab3-7e3d-4836-8037-c6b6d665f16c_rw_1920.png?h=b46307c27de79a0ce975bdff62385065)
Repeating Texture Derived from CNN Composite
![3D Model](https://cdn.myportfolio.com/7f012006b9e84bca3e05ed982f58eaf9/57b3cf4b-b9b9-418a-847b-3135832d8aff_rw_1200.png?h=782df3d9bc2223a5b17f867d923c783e)
3D Model
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