Tired of the same old images, the same old colors, I needed something that wouldn’t make me tired over time while searching for an original thread. It is a mosaic, it is a puzzle or a maze?
Each shape of the composition leaves space for the other, fitting in with its neighbour and playing with colors and outlines to arrive at another image… or not, and in realizing this, time passes pleasantly without stopping to observe and discover all that a vector drawing can hide.
And one image and a thousand images, a multitude of individual forms that never overlap and never meet touch.
the background – To create the Venice drawing, I spent a few days in the city, this time as an image investigator. Pencil and eraser folder and camera in hand, I searched for angles and figures hidden, or rather in plain sight, to fill the background and hide them amidst a myriad of random shapes, which are generated close to each other without ever overlapping, leaving a little air, a little space, if only to recognise to each single, apparently insignificant piece the importance it has for the overall result.
Preparation for colouring: when all the pieces have been created, the most beautiful moment arrives for the draughtsman. It is important to specify that each shape has the particularity of being closed, not intersecting with itself and the other bordering shapes in the drawing. This makes it possible to fill them quickly with a colour, and then to play with all the colours, changing them at will thanks to the digital support, to obtain the colour game most desired or that most intrigues the viewer.
The design explosion: many shapes are now coloured. Others are still waiting for their colour, but this time the colour does not play for a perception of a bigger picture. Now, for the last objects to be coloured, no special study of colour and saturation, now it is the feast of colours, like putting a child with markers to colour the figures.
The design is ready. Just a few more small touches: the background, the thickness of the lines, the settings for an optimal digital print that allows potentially endless printing solutions
zooming does not change the quality
The construction phases of ChromaZoom works may vary from one design to another, depending on the end result.
When I start to design a work, I voluntarily do not fossilize in imagining the final result, thus allowing new ideas and hitherto unexplored phases of construction of the work to arise during the thousands of hours I will spend creating it.
This reveals my desire to evolve together with my drawings, in a magical context such as expressive art.
It will be the colors, in the end, that will decide what we will see. The colors always have the final say and it is a merit that must be acknowledged because thanks to them, completing a work by colouring it becomes an exciting game.
