Gambado

Lumen & Logic

A child seen from behind, floating mid-leap on warm empty paper, built from one solid: the tapered capsule — a segment with a radius at each end, understood as the union of the balls along it. Its projection is exactly the convex hull of its two end discs, so a silhouette is two circular arcs joined by the outer common tangents in closed form, and there is no sampled geometry anywhere in the package. Every mark is that one shape: a limb, a paint blob, a fold in a sleeve, the terminator on a floating body, a flower petal, a fin on a miniature rocket. Each limb chain is cut at a parameter into a clothed run and a bare run — a garment is a cut of the primitive, not a mask, so the hem is a real circle of the solid and the seam cannot open a gap. What is clothed takes a broad shadow, a narrow sheen and a few creases and reads as volume; what is bare takes a cloud of flat camouflage blobs and no shading at all and reads as pattern, and that opposition is the picture. The paint belongs to the body rather than to the limb: a blob is admitted to every solid it actually meets in 3-D and drawn identically under each one’s clip, so a blob straddling an elbow crosses the joint with no gap and the camouflage reads as one painted body seen through several windows. Around the figure float spheres with mottled faces, one hand holds a radial bloom, and miniature craft and astronauts — the same armature builder at a fortieth of the scale — tumble past the heels. Everything is opaque and painted back to front, so depth is occlusion alone. Nothing is outlined: the only stroke in the package runs under the fills, so all that survives of it is a soft keyline around the figure that lifts it off the paper.

Medium

Generative algorithm, archival pigment print

Dimensions

64 × 90 cm