“Hieroglyphic”
"Hieroglyphic" was created in December 2006 as a hybrid of a paper
sketch (10-24-2005), while attending a lecture of Guido Goldman and
with "Painter" (Metacreations) and Photoshop (Adobe).
Print: Piezo-Print on Somerset Velvet Size: Paper: 69x89 cm, Picture: 56x80 cm Copies: 10, numbered and signed, and 2 artist's copies (I-II) Price: 675.‒ Euros Artist: Björn Dämpfling
Should someone be curious about what is written at the top of the
image, it is the following part of text, shown in italics, that my
artist friend J.D. Jarvis wrote back to me, after I had sent this
image to him in an e-mail attachment and without this hand writing in
the header: "Your image looks like a hieroglyphic for some sort of
strange recipe involving chopped carrots, black beans, cake with blue
icing all run through some sort of elaborate blender or juicer to be
enjoyed with forks. You may use that as your title if you wish." As a
title I only partially used it, but as a final visual idea this white
handwriting was a perfect fit, though the meaning of the text did not
matter and for me never should. Nothing bores me more than imagery
that is luring attention with an enigma that can’t be seen, just
understood after being explained. But what can’t be seen in an image
can only be an essence that does not show, i.e. nonessential. Apart
from that it is obvious that digital “oil paint” is used throughout
the image, dominating completely the structural lines left, which
only in the bottom part, in the form of black edges, remain more or
less accentuated.