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George Smith and I have something in common. We both create desktops, those digital wallpapers that make many computer monitors passive expressions of personality. There is this difference: while mine regularly feature my cat, his are intricately layered electrical compositions of post-postmodernism.
Who is George Smith?
I am a 26 year old designer. I am a creative person and love to express my creativity in any way that I can. For the most part, that is visually through photography or digital art. I am a very detail oriented and critical person. I also really like beer, music and video games.
Why do you create?
I create to vent my creativity. For the longest time I have been trying to express myself the best way I can. Drawing, writing, designing, photographing, painting, I have done it all. The ones that seem to have stuck the longest are photography and design. I love showing people the way I see things through my artwork, and I love hearing what people think they see in my artwork.
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Why desktops?
Back when I first started to begin messing around with digital art I really didn’t know what I was doing, I would make very small images in Photoshop, I was just playing around to see what I could do. A website that I began to frequent (Customize.org) launched a desktop wallpaper section. This was a huge deal for Customize because their whole thing was skinning, alternate interfaces for applications. There was no art website where you could just submit a randomly sized image and let people view it, or if there was I didn’t know about it. So I began sizing my artwork in wallpaper dimensions so that I could submit them to Customize. I am really glad that I started that and kept with it because to me it is the best way for people to see a digital artist’s work, all the desktops in the world are frames waiting to be filled and because my artwork is already sized for those frames, it’s just that much easier to get my work displayed.
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Can infinitely-reproducible digital art be as valuable as the inherently-rarer physical arts such as painting and sculpture?
I think given the right circumstances, yes. A high resolution print can only be made from a high resolution original file, if this is kept out of the public’s hand’s and prints are made on a very limited basis, I think it could be possible. But being an artist myself, I have to question whether I would want my work so restricted like that. As an artist, I want as many people as possible to view my work, and with technology going the way it is, how long will it be before large digital frames are so affordable that anyone could buy them? When that point comes, I can see a market for very high resolution artwork that can be purchased and displayed on them. No one would want a low resolution image being displayed on their 30×20″ digital frame. Even if my digital frame idea is just a pipe dream, I think digital art still has a ways to go when compared to the traditional methods.
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How might your art evolve over the next year?
I have found myself at a crossroads recently with my artwork. I go through phases and I think I am stuck in between them right now. I really don’t know exactly where it will go, I never do. But I do know that I want to try and get back to including a lot more organic photography in it. I have been going through this phase where everything is digitally created and I think I am finding myself missing some of the natural elements I used to incorporate in my work.
My thanks to George for sharing his work. Please visit endeffect.com for more.
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