Artist Post - Alberto Seveso

Alberto Seveso is a freelance illustrator who works with Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator to create ethereal, stunning portrait images. Many of his pieces seem to be used as title pages for articles, books, and as advertisements. His preferred style began with a fascination for skate deck graphics and metal band cd covers, and from this grew a career in illustration.

A common theme in his work is liquidity, and maybe from that, transformation. The subjects, whether specific or not, become translucent, and are bursting metaphorically with flowers, organic forms, flat forms of color, and often colored smokes. Individuals are made up of many parts that aren't visible to the outside, and I feel that Seveso's art kind of reflects the personal interior of his subjects. Some are soft, or intense, or focused on their own passion.

My reaction is pretty simple, just in that I think Seveso's work is beautiful, and consistently suggesting creativity and personality.

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Technology Log

8:30 - cell phone alarm clock
8:48 - checked time
8:49 - used internet
9:20- checked texts
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11:49 - responded to text, used internet through phone
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5:05 - respond to text
5:14 - internet through laptop
5:50 - used pages program to write assignment
6:30 - texted

Scansa Stark

the birds were circling, but they knew not why and for how long
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Artist Review 1

Moths, Joseph Scheer

Scheer is a professor of Printmaking at Alfred University in Alfred, New York. His moth scan series began as collages with bugs as a component of the entire piece, and as he continued his work became solely focused on the moth, alone on a blank screen. In his statement he expresses respect and adoration for nature, his biophilia an emotional connection to the world we inhabit.

My initial impression of the moth scans shown in the Christiane Paul article was that these were imitating old collections of moths or butterflies, and I feel that this is probably a fairly universal reaction.   Moths really aren't seen in nature with their wings unfolded or with their proboscises unwound, and the flat white background kind of repeats this scientific, observative, aesthetic. But with the knowledge that Scheer scanned the moths and the final piece is not the moth on display, or a field sketch for scientific use, but an image of a moth, the moths' physical, visible features are the actual purpose of the piece.

Scheer developed a unique scanner for the moths he collected from outside his office and his friends' gardens at night. The amount of data collected was massive, enough so that only two moth scans could be fit on one compact disc. Scans can be zoomed in over 2,000 times, and still be crystal clear, so its kind of a testament to how once we observed and collected data with microscopes and the bare eye, but now there is no need to keep a moth collection, the image and all the data you'd need is available through technology.

Personally, I'd like to have prints of these for decoration, but I think scanning as a medium for scientific study could be a way to publicize (online) studies and create a more easily accessed base of knowledge for the public eye.