Tezos

Athens Airport v03x, 1990 / 2024 remix

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This remix is a composite of two 1990 states of Athens Airport. Both of them had a geodesic sphere overlay. The image was completed retroactively by Victor Acevedo on Sunday, January 6, 2019. Athens Airport v03 is based on a 1983 photograph of the artist’s parents and his younger brother. However, they are obscured in this version by the yellow geodesic sphere that encloses them. This mandala-like image also features a pinwheel like pattern of zoomorphic characters arrayed in six-fold rotational symmetry at the composition’s center. This potentially all-space filling zoomorphic tessellation was born analog, originally created in 1988, using pencil and paper. So, one could say this image was built in a hybrid or trans-media workflow. Victor has said. “Every once in a while, when I revisit some of my early digital images, looking at them 20 or 30 years later, I can’t help but tweak them or composite various iterations together to achieve what I was originally trying for at the time. And there are the factors of having a better-trained eye and more command of the craft that support the compulsion to intervene with certain old pieces. One day, I came to the realization that if I’m still alive then my body of work is potentially in a fluid state and its images are open to updates, no matter where they live on the timeline.” Digital File: 2671 x 2160 pixels

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rotational symmetry

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victor acevedo

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