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AltJames

Translations is a new series working with flatness and vectors and moving away from pixel painting. I'm thinking about what abstract looks like when it's not obsessed with texture and paint.

SVG can be animated with CSS and JS and i'm developing my work with this in mind.

The works come with an optional printable PDF - I usually recommend dibond aluminium prints, which are available around the world - contact me and I will create a printable file and advise on print.

Blemish

Acacias is made of layers of SVG elements in HTML5 with javascript taking advantage of the opacity features and scalability.

Each time the file loads the elements load randomly at random sizes and positions. The image reloads itself every 20s. The whole file comes in at 10kb.

Acacias grow in my garden and excellent for burning. They tend to grow in clumps but you do get singles and collections of two or three fighting for survival.

The image will reload itself every few seconds and you will get a different composition every time. Think of it as lots of generative compositions in one piece.

Translations is a new series working with flatness and vectors and moving away from pixel painting. I'm thinking about what abstract looks like when it's not obsessed with texture and paint.

This series appears on several blockchains and is a development of my visual language I've been developing over 35 years.

Acacias (Printemps)

Muimi uses digital painting and drawing with digital collage. 4096 x 5464px.

Muimi

4k digitally native abstracts. A series of connected works - each ‘Station’ is related and marks a return to pixels with a collage element.

‘The stations of the Cross’ is subject matter that intersects, art history, tradition, meditation, painting, ritual and abstraction. Historically they may depict points on the 'Via Dolorosa', each station may be a sculpture, a painting or simply numbers on a wall. It isn’t the image, it’s the ritual involved. The metaphor for life and death.

A station is something fixed – a position in which something is assigned to stand or remain. A painting in a gallery is fixed as we wander through it – walk past or pause in front, as we consider the thoughts we bring or simply just look and be open to the ideas that arise. Abstracts occupy that space between communication and meditation.

These paintings are not an attempt to depict, literally, but to evolve into a container for any enquiry. A cross symbol is a feature of my work - it has multiple readings, from an illiterate signature, a kiss, a vote and so on.

These days we simply don’t make space for looking, thinking and simply ‘being’.

Provenance note. This series and metadata was originally made and minted between December 2021 and April 2022 on the Known Origin platform. I subsequently burned a large proportion of them for various reasons associated with KO. They were reminted to my own contract in early 2023 and existing buyers were airdropped a replacement with the option of keeping or burning the earlier version. I did this to keep the remint a 'complete' series of 14.

16:9 real 4k 2304x4096px

Station 14

A mini-series collaboration by @labelsonhumans and @altjamesa  Based on Robert Indiana's 1960s 'LOVE' typographic artwork – we’ve updated it for the modern mindset.

In developing this series, we asked ourselves ‘What makes people (think they are) happy?‘. The saying goes ‘all you need is love’, but people get their kicks in lots of other ways. 

Elements and colourways are from @labelsonhumans’ original ‘Revolutionary Happiness’ remixed with typographic elements by @altjames

Choose one, choose three, put them together however you like - whatever makes you happy. Contact us for a printable PDF

A ‘Revolutionary Happiness’ Y2 remix. 

WORK

Heart and Soul

On-chain abstract artwork by altjames. This contract is reserved for on-chain work only. 

Jalt2

Station 6

Digital abstract paintings minted on my own ERC721 contract $JALT. 1/1s


LUST

Versum

Grasshand is a form of chinese cursive script. The script functions primarily as a kind of shorthand script or calligraphic style; it is faster to write than other styles, but can be difficult to read for those unfamiliar with it due to its abstraction and alteration of character structures.

Grasshand

Calligraphs are digital-native paintings by AltJames. They meditate on the nature of typography, letterforms and historical writing systems.

A qalam is a type of pen made from a cut, dried reed, used for Islamic calligraphy.  A qalam should be roughly twelve to sixteen inches long, and could not be too dry as they needed to be a specific balance of not too sturdy and not too flexible

Qalam

Calligraphs (editions)

'Manifest2' part of my cross-chain 'Translations' series. SVG animated with CSS with a final file size of just 132kb. The still JPG version is 8000px X 8000px and 6mb.

Translations is a new series working with flatness and vectors and moving away from pixel painting. I'm thinking about what abstract looks like when it's not obsessed with texture and paint.

This new series for 2022 appears on several blockchains and is a development of my visual language I've been developing over 35 years.

Manifest 2

Unused

Kiroku means 'archive' in Japanese. This is a digital archive of experience, language and elements saved, elements created. 

My work is not trying to mimic paint in digital formats, but bring painterly process to digital. Equally, I love who paint works, looks and feels. After 35 years making images using digital tools, going back to oil on canvas makes no more sense for me.

It is 16:9 format for Samsung and other digital screens. 

Kiroku

Kakuri (Isolation) are the one-offs, the misfits, the interesting things that don't fit into a series, the side alleys off the main drag that I need to explor further, the places with no home, the experiments and burned.

Kiroku means 'restart' in japanese. This work represents a restart for me and a new phase in my work -  i'm less interested in representing 'paint' but just as interested in complexity, layering, composition, colour and mark making.

This was made and minted for the House of Abstract Metaverse Exhibition September 2022

Kakuri

A mini-series collaboration by @labelsonhumans and @altjamesa  Based on Robert Indiana's 1960s 'LOVE' typographic artwork – we’ve updated it for the modern mindset.

In developing this series, we asked ourselves ‘What makes people (think they are) happy?‘.   The saying goes ‘all you need is love’, but people get their kicks in lots of other ways. 

Elements and colourways are from @labelsonhumans’ original ‘Revolutionary Happiness’ and remixed with typographic elements by @altjames

Choose one, choose three, put them together however you like - whatever makes you happy. Contact us for a printable PDF

A ‘Revolutionary Happiness’ Y2 remix. 

altjames

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