“Fischtraum” (Dream of the Fish)
"Fischtraum" (Dream of the Fish) was entirely drawn using
"Painter"(Metacreations) in 1997/8. Print: Piezo-Print on Somerset Size: Paper: 74x74 cm, Picture: 60x60 cm Copies: 25, numbered and signed, and 5 artist's copies (I-V) Price: 975.‒ Euros Artist: Björn Dämpfling
This image was created in its first phase with the Computer of my
brother-in-law, because in 1997 my software “Painter” was still
too demanding for my own machine. It is the first major digital
image I created within nine months of daily work only with a new
computer, the software “Painter” and an electronic drawing
board, after having visited the world’s largest computer fair Cebit,
where I bought my equipment. It is pretty obvious, that 15 years
of skin diving, every year for a couple of weeks in Norway and
with heavy wet suits of course, have left there marks in this baroque
composition, as well as enjoying all kinds of visual puzzles,
the creation which was fostered by the spontaneous access to all
kinds of “materials” thanks to the digital production technique.
There so many images in this image, that it takes time as well as
a lot of attention to get them. And the dedicated onlooker will notice
that not everything colorful is joyful and will realize that with
changing viewing direction the same part of the image offer very
different “images”.