ARTIST STATEMENT
During the experimental process of my artmaking I realised that pixilation can completely draw any detailed physical properties out of a face, not to the point of abstraction as a human face can definitely still be identified, however it bought me to understand that I could use the pixel as a form of distortion, whereby I could see a person’s figure become humbled through art. Aghori Sadhus is a portrait of a member of the Aghori sect of Shaivism in India; a subject matter I was drawn to for its rudimentary ideologies; a sect stripped bare represented by a face stripped bare.
ARTWORK PROCESS
This artwork was produced by taking a source image and digitally manipulating it through pixilation. The canvas was then gridded and the image painted using the pixelated photo as a guide. Each grid square on the canvas was painted by reproducing the colour from the corresponding position in the pixelated image.
