Sewon Park – LO – 9

As an inspirational project that my peers have assessed, I chose Karl Sims Flow. I completely agree with Sarah Choi’s assessment that the piece is most notable for its use of nature’s existing motion such as gravity and flow of water. However, one important aspect to note is some of the other motions inspired by works of other painters such as Van Gogh. Through using Gogh’s classic bush stroke, Sims recreates the Starry Night in a modern fashion

One other notable thing is that although the motion itself captures nature, the color orientation of the rippling effects are quite uncommon. Just as Sarah said, the co-existing randomness and configured motion is interesting. I also think the co-existence of the natural motion and artificial colors are also notable. This piece represents the variables of nature and randomness governed by the movement of human beings. That concept lying behind the implementation of the art is that different factors of the peice is all being controlled by the audience to create a truly mesmerizing motion depicted with natural motion and artificial colors.

Link to post: https://courses.ideate.cmu.edu/15-104/f2019/2019/09/06/sarah-choi-looking-outwards-02/

Link to original work: http://www.karlsims.com/flow.html