Avalanche

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Thomas Lisle

  • Nature
  • Abstract

3d

Avalanche is about a more exuberant breakup and disintegration of the snow, and the paint is calmer and more homogenous. The snow falls from higher ground and gets formed in odd ways, which make strange surrealist shapes, and the snow physics are hacked to produce more abstract, non-realistic behaviours and outcomes. It's not a big epic force of nature avalanche but a small-scale gentle pastiche of an avalanche. If the theme of these videos is breaking up or dissolving old ideas, old concepts, and old feelings, then this is washing away with more power than the other two videos. 

 

White is often associated with purity and compassion, and few substances in nature are more white than snow. The snow forms in this artwork were created by painting curving and flowing shapes in 3D and then building invisible shapes which are moving and shifting, a bit like leaves or boughs bending or snapping under the weight of the snow, forcing the snow to fall, making dynamic and abstract background to the 3D paintings which are calmer less chaotic. The paint painting elements are also made by physically painting with a tablet pen in 3D, animated and programmed to flow and disperse in zero gravity, floating and weightless, and the snow is heavy.

 

The paint and the snow are both breaking apart, but in very different ways, and it's the contrast of colours, action, temperature, and gravity, together with the still background, which produces a kind of balanced visual harmony. 

 

Like Japanese, Korean, and Chinese woodblock prints, these artworks are made with layers of ideas, form, movement, and colour; the clear and concise differences between the layers balance to create a kind of abstract compositional wholeness.

artwork infos

format

portrait

technique

3d

duration

00:58

year

2024

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