The missing chapter in the history of digital art

[Obscuria]

Hello dear snamuh,

Something has been turning over in my head, and I'd like to put it to people who know the work better than I do.

When Denison set down the brush — the Eht Namuh canvas, Le Grand Puppeteer, the faces between portrait and abstraction — the surrealist's tools didn't disappear.

They migrated. The colour switches, the hand-coloured tables, the abracadabra triangle: the site does on a screen what the paintings did on canvas. In the histories of digital art I read for my work, that chapter is simply missing, and it shouldn't be.

For the long-timers : did David ever speak of the site as a continuation of the painting, or as a clean break ?

Peace,

O.

[Redbeck]

Dear Obscuria, welcome to the Oracle forum community and thank you for the shrewdest of observations. The web site was the next chapter of the great work beyond the canvas, and assembled from an army of notebooks that captured creativity as it flooded the mind. In much the same way that Leonardo da Vinci leant deeply toward science in all its branches, from engineering physics to medicine and excursions into ingenuity of invention, all captured in great detail in notebooks but the man painted in hidden messages. Artistic evolution was ever thus, you must first understand the importance of history in order to release the floodgates of ideas that help decode the future.

We look forward to your further valuable contributions.

Respice, aspice, futuros condimus. Da deus fortunae.

Redbeck