“Cthulhu”
"Cthulhu" was created in November 2006 with "Painter"
(Metacreations) and Photoshop(Adobe, based on a photo
of a nano
structure taken from an electron microscope.
Print: Piezo-Print on Somerset Velvet Size: Paper: 70x90 cm, Picture: 60x80 cm Copies: 10, numbered and signed, and 2 artist's copies (I-II) Price: 600.‒ Euros Artist: Björn Dämpfling
The basics building blocks of this image, which may remind some of
the effects of an “explosion filter” is instead completely based on
layering, manipulating the angles by hand and putting in color (the
original being black and white), also using filters like paint
brushes. One could call it “painting with filters”, which is quite
different from “applying filters” in the way those filters should be
used. Most of what I am doing makes no sense in terms of what things
are meant for, like using sharpening and softening filters one after
another a dozen times and so forth. If an image like that is finished
I have used so many filters so many times and combined the most
improbable stuff, including layering, many times, so that there is no
way to recall and I don’t want to. Because the next time around, no
matter how impressive some result may look like, I want to start
completely anew. And I like to make things deceptive, so it may look
like a certain filter being used, but if one would try to copy it,
the imitator will soon know better. The title was taken from H.P.
Lovecraft (“The Call of Cthulhu”)