“Angry Sphinx” by Phillippa Egerton
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These works deal essentially with the problems of transferring and transforming images drawn on the computer to other media. I work in a variety of media – paint, printmaking (photo-etching and linocut). stained glass and clay, the last providing me with an opportunity to work out in a three dimensional form images based on my computer drawings.
I like to draw freehand on the computer combining those images with the formal structures that most software programs have. Using the computer with its built in constraints results in the creation of an artificial space which is different in feel to paintings based on direct observation where the space surrounding the object provides a continuous structure for the whole image. And it is this manufactured space that for me distinguishes computer based art.
ln the Angry Sphinx I experimented with the combination of a free hand image overlaid with a formal structure which was based on a totally different abstract design drawn on the computer.
