THE mUSES - Fragmented Figures III - V

This is a development of the 'Muse' like character introduced in earlier work. I'm possibly beginning to subconsciously borrow elements and themes that I was exposed to while growing up, where I had been exposed to Greek mythology and archetypes. The rendering in ceramic material along with the standardised poses of the models resemble the style of that age.

This initially started out as being comprised of just the fibrous networks, which were connected to traveling masks driven by perlin noise across the surface of the scans. I had initially wanted to carry out an algorithmically driven reduction of information, to strip all information of the character away and keep a barren diagrammatic lattice which would define the gesture of the poses. Though the end result was interesting, it felt a bit too stark and something that I had seen quite often before so I decided to incorporate that structural pass with a more formally boolean'd (initial scan mesh - cluster of grouped cubes) scan, to create something similar to previous examples.

The end result is a bit of a combination of elements - there's the abstraction of the pose and movement captured by the reduced points and thread-like lattice - there's the formalistic pose of the selected scans - the traditional materiality in which those are expressed - and an austerity in the method of mass-removal through a more formalistic and geometrically traditional boolean operation.

Additional traditional aspects could be considered in the expression of the three figures, as well as their triangular configuration within the space.