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Graphic by Sandshoe
May Sweet Impact reproduce well for its display in honour of Warrigal Mirriyuula’s Happy Hour.
Titled on a later Macintosh and signed, and printed on a mottled grey paper, I created Sweet Impact in its original form on a white background using a Clarisworks programme that was provided with a Mac LC II. I bought the Mac LC II in 1992 for word processing.
A Hewlett Packard printer supplied with the Mac produced a high quality graphic (pictured) that charmed me and won my interest in computagraphic still art. Some of the prints I made took as long as 20 minutes to print a copy.
I used a combination of a draw function and a colour fill function enhanced using a gradients feature to swirl colour in increasing and decreasing depths of shade and the limitation is regards reproduction of any one design the programme retained no memory of what functions were used, what steps make up the designs, no artist’s notebook. It was not conceivable to stop and record each step manually because I experienced the passion of colour and its manipulation so intensely it was impossible to break from the creative process.
I hope, Warrigal Mirriyuula whose writing and art I admire so much, you enjoy Sweet Impact.
Image of Printer sourced at: http://hpinkcartridgescheap.com/hp-inkjet-printer-history/
Image of the Mac LC II sourced at: http://myoldmac.net/SELL/Macintosh-LC-II.htm
Reference to a history of Clarisworks: http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/users/bob/clarisworks.php
Window Dresser's Arms, Pig & Whistle 
‘Shoe, I love your sense of color and constrast. When I first looked at this piece, however, I must admit I didn’t really ‘understand’ it; I couldn’t ‘grok its fullness’… But now, thanks to your response to Vectis Lad’s comment above, I begin to understand it a bit better… I can just imagine it in silk with those contrasting reds and blues… I can imagine playing a gig in a silk shirt with this kind of print… With any luck it would take the audience’s mind off any bum no… errr, ‘improvisations’ I might accidentally play!
I must say, however, that I miss Warrigal, his stories and his ‘digital mischief’; and hope he’s on the mend… and that our piglet-thoughts have at least cheered him up a little…
🙂
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Astyages, to have a silk shirt that is as dynamic would be an interesting vision for the audience for you as a musician. Lighting as well can produce such a dramatic effect on fabric and design and the lighting is frequently the show whereas the fabric can create the interest with simple light applied on it or behind it.
Thank you for your considered comment. Regards ‘understanding’ art I think if a design or arrangement of colour creates a pause for a person in their daily life or on the occasion of a visit to an exhibition-and they carry it away with them in their imagination and find themselves reflecting back on it- then it has ‘worked’ on one level. If that recall is pleasant or enjoyable, frees the mind or offers a different look at an old subject, on another level for me it ‘works’. Interesting isn’t it what makes ‘art’ art and what it is not. While that is individual in a lot of way, depending on our experience or perception, eg including whether we are colour blind as some of this discussion has gone, another interesting feature of ‘art’ is that two or more of us come to some agreement about whether a work of art is ‘good’ or ‘bad’…curiouser and more curiouser is some art strikes a common chord and in this case you have created another image beyond the original having absorbed the dynamic of the conversation and thus ‘art’ spawns new images and ideas.
We miss piglet Warrigal terribly asty and yes, that’s a piglet truth.
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It looks like a shattered flag. not too bad really.
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VL, bear with me while I say thank you for your comment.
When I was in the midst of the passion of creating this and it began to shape, I imagined an allusion to a projectile or firework, rocket, a lantern, and I began to see it in silk, imagining it as a potential fabric piece. I had in eventual mind the totality of references to culture in patterning, yes, cloth and design, colour, the excitement of change that is creative.
I treasure your perception it has the appearance of a shattered flag…and your ‘Not too bad really’. Thank you.
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yo shoe. I’m colour blind but appreciate the essence of your post.
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Colour blind puzzles me Hung. I am not sure if all people who are colour blind are affected in the same way. It is not something I have any knowledge of. Thank you though for your kind response.
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Shoe, I have some red-green colour blindness too. I gather that about 5% of the population (including Hung and me) do not perceive the same colours as the other 95% – and that there are maybe three different kinds of colour “blindness” – caused by different genetic mutations. I gather also that colour blindness is a recessive quality carried on the X chromosome – so the overwhelming percentage of the colour blind tribe is male, but the defect is carried by our mums and sisters as well as we colour blind males.
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A fragment of your imagination, ‘Shoe. Many thanks 🙂
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Emmjay, you went to some trouble to try to reproduce this. It is an interesting result that the grey mottling has not reproduced, so much so that you thought what you could see was grey smudging. It is cruious to me the mottling is clear on my original, clear as well when I add the image to my screen as background.
Yet has not translated when I attached the file to the email and sent it. Curious.
I think this piece is quite beautiful in its original with the random grey mottling of the paper through it and would like to solve this reproduction one day. Lovely to see it shared though. Thank you for posting it for Warrigal.
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Interesting – and curious. Posting it was my pleasure. Kind regards, Emm.
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Cool.
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Wonderful, Vivienne. Thank you.
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I felt impacted by the sweetness of this post. Well done Shoe.
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Nice to hear from you Sandshoe.
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To the oosties, Gerard and Helvi, many thanks for your kind inspiration and warm greetings. 🙂
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