![]() |

"I create animated digital compositions that evolve as the viewer interacts with them. Collages built from fragmented interfaces, splintered figures and shards of images found on the web, these designs shift over time, responding to the viewer's interaction in surprising and often unpredictable ways. Sometimes shifting suddenly, or slowly dissolving, they unfold as the viewer explores the terrain of the artwork. Woven with images of the body, religious icons, pop culture and the computer interface itself, this art evokes the human frailty behind the technology. It is about human contact, often hidden, forgotten in the glitter and theory and technology, the frailty, loneliness and love in the world we ignore each day. There is hidden beauty in the mundane objects that I find both on and off the web: a skin tone, the flesh of a grape, a corner of a room, carpeting, a cast shadow. These scraps of human lives, both anonymous and intimate, form the raw material of my collages. The final human interaction, that of the viewer with the design, both creates and completes the artwork." Mark Napier New York City |