LO 1 – My Inspiration

Espen Kluge , “Alternatives”

During my deep dive into tech artists, I came across a portrait series by Espen Kluge titled, “Alternatives”. The creation process included compiling multiple photographs and reworking them with creative code to arrive at an abstracted portrait. Each portrait uses soft colors which portrays a gentle color scheme to a harsh compilation of lines and geometric shapes. His portraits feel architectural, but are toned down by their muted colors. It’s interesting to note that he experimented with different facial expressions per portrait to arrive at an abstracted face. In an interview, he states,” evolution has trained us to read the nuance of human facial expression with a higher degree of sensitivity than any other visual input.” his focus on the subtle expressions are covered by the multiple generated vectors on his portraits, but still evoke the creases and lines of a facial expression. He used processing and JavaScript to create his colorful portraiture series and explained that the code loops through all the pixels at semi random, and generates lines between the pixels to create the portraiture.