Evolving Winds

Aston Creus

Opening 05.04.17 6-8pm
Artist Talks 27.04.17 6-7pm

Seeking inspiration from the wilderness projects of 1960’s vanguard artists across Japan and the USA, the works in Evolving Wilds situate the infinite, procedurally-generated virtual landscape as a bivouac for artistic practice. Whereas previous work has seen the artist physically interfacing with games to create monumental structures and markings within them, Evolving Wilds partially inverts this by melding Regency Era ornamentation and depictions of nature with content sourced from these digital environments. Attempting to create forms that act between these virtual spaces thus becomes a method for greater understanding their overlap with the physical wild.
The pieces form part of a broader ongoing investigation into the ways in which the pastoral landscape has become manifest in contemporary contexts through the visual tropes and language of both medieval fantasy and video games, and are partially informed by a month-long studio residency undertaken in the rural Yamanashi prefecture of Japan.