Stir It Up And Mix It Up – That’s Pastiche! (With Horizontal Scrolling Image)

Cubist Modflower

The discordant and syncopated visual rhythms and shifting spatial references form an intermixed background of space and time for the Modflower to strut her stuff against. How can her conceit be so charming?

Square Root 9 Dot = 3 Flowers

Is that a Radical Sign lurking there in the swirls of the flow? Therefore, Square Root 9 Dot equals 3 Flowers! (Yes, the flowers are squarely rooted under it…)

Postmodern Palm Bird

The stars twinkle brightly all around, and the cool evening breeze blows gently as one of our fine-feathered friends takes her perch high above the cares of the world. She’s sitting pretty and in comfy-cushy postmodern tropical style while luxuriating in the views from her penthouse in the palm fronds!

Pastiche Mix

Pastiche!

CLICK ON IMAGE FOR LARGER VIEW.

NOTES ON THE CREATIVE PROCESS: The images in the current segment are done with vector graphics on computer. They are intended to interconnect into each other, and the nature of the vector graphics seems to call for a postmodern “Pastiche” kind of approach. This segment plays rather heavily on the notion of Pastiche – the dissonant and often seemingly random combining and recombining of visual concepts and elements – in the individual images, and in the way the images are put in sequence.

OK, let’s hook this up into the train of thought that we’ve been riding on for the past few posts…

Free-Flowing Pastiche Mix

CLICK ON IMAGE FOR LARGER VIEW, AS A HORIZONTALLY SCROLLING IMAGE

If you’ve been following this blog, you may have noticed that there has been a kind of “word play” that has been going on in the commentaries for some of the images in recent posts. This is meant to be a form of exploration and experimentation with semiotics and semantics – dealing with the meanings of symbols and words. And note how the word play involves some mathematical references being made to in the commentary for one of the images in this current post:

Square Root 9 Dot = 3 Flowers

If you look at the long horizontal image above (the one titled “Free-Flowing Pastiche Mix”), you might see that some of the individual images out of which it is comprised are rather similar to, yet different from, each other:

Star Channel Squared

Modflower In Crux

Square Root 9 Dot = 3 Flowers

In a way, you could say that they are “mathematically related” to each other.

For example:

Inversed and Sort of Equal to

Note how one image is the inverse of the other – well sort of, anyway. (I also swapped some of the icons, sort of like how you swap variables in algebra, and “swapped” some of the colors, too.)

Computer graphics lends itself very well to this kind of almost mathematical kind of design approach…

PSYCHOLOGICAL NOTES: The commentaries are based on whatever thoughts and feelings the images happened to inspire within me when I was reviewing them. I had dance and electronic music playing in the background as I conceived the commentaries for this segment – it seemed to match the mood of the images.