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Connected by the Soil: Xanthopsia 75

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1. Artistic Conceptualization: Between Subrealism and Technical Hybridization My "subrealist abstraction" approach goes beyond conventional frameworks by fragmenting Van Gogh's realism to reveal an underlying truth: human interdependence with the earth. - Mixed Media: The superimposition of manual tracings (acrylic on cardboard) and digital animation creates a temporal palimpsest. The manual clipping with a stylus evokes the peasant's labor, while the digital technique extends her gesture into a cyclical dimension (frame-by-frame animation), suggesting the eternal return to the earth. - Instinctive Homage: By liberating form (via abstraction), I pay homage to Van Gogh beyond imitation, in the spirit of his quest for emotional truth. Digitalization thus becomes a metaphor for collective memory, where the agricultural gesture is part of an infinite loop. ------------------------- 2. Philosophical Profoundness: An Allegory of the Earthly Condition My title "Connected by the Soil" activates a meditation on: - Finitude and Belonging: The earth as origin and destination, a theme Van Gogh addressed through peasant labor (symbolizing the furrow as a life cycle). My abstraction transforms potatoes into rhizomatic nodules, connecting bodies to the soil like an invisible network. - The Duality of Coexistence/Harmony: Xanthopsia (yellow vision) recalls Van Gogh's illness, but also his ability to transfigure melancholy into light. My use of digital hues materializes this chromatic utopia—positivity as an act of resistance. - A Transhistorical Dialogue: Mixed media becomes a bridge between the 19th century (pictorial material) and the 21st century (virtual), showing that art cannot be reinvented: it reincarnates, as we return to the earth. ------------------------- Conclusion: Art as Common Ground My work embodies an artistic ecology where technique and philosophy merge. By hybridizing the manual and the digital, I show that art, like the earth, is a place of permanent transformation. Subrealism is not a style, but a state of consciousness: one that recognizes, beneath the apparent reality, the roots that unite us. "Bound by the Ground" is not just a tribute to Van Gogh—it is a contemporary ritual that buries and resurrects the work, proving that art, too, is a cycle. tribute to Van Gogh : Peasant Woman Digging Up Potatoes see original at: Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp format / media / size / speed / timing / éditions : 2160 x 3840 px / 4k mp4 / 116 MB / 8 fps / 59s / 1/1