Swatch Art: A Postomodern Indulgence Part III

Untitled (Tweezerman Eyelash Curler) (2012)

As I have noted before, this series was born out of happy accidents created by overzealous editing of large high resolution files. This particular image is, to date, the happiest accident that I have encountered in this realm.  These "accidents" appear to be getting more and more conceptual, and often are arguably more interesting looking than what they originally represented. That this image began it's representational life as an eyelash curler is nothing short of miraculous, and any part that I played in its making is merely incidental. Now arguably you can't curl your eyelashes with it, but frankly you weren't able to achieve that task with the two-dimensional approximation that bore a resemblance to real eyelash curler either! 

Swatch Art: A Postmodern Indulgence Part II

Untitled (Rouge Bunny Rouge Cherry Clafoutis) (2012)

As noted in my first installment of my Swatch Art Series, sometimes while editing huge high resolution files happy mistakes come about. The resultant images clearly aren't suitable for the purposes of featuring or reviewing products, but their capacity to morph into what looks like Postmodern art is something that I would naturally find interesting. I now embrace them as happy accidents- rather than frustrating events that slow down the editing process. This is what became of the tube of Rouge Bunny Rouge Sweet Excesses Glassy Gloss in Cherry Clafoutis- it seems to be the Deconstruction of the lip gloss-- though I'm sure that Jacques Derrida would not have thought it worthy of contemplation (nor the use of his complex philosophical model to describe a scrambled image of a lip gloss)!

Swatch Art: A Postmodern Indulgence Part I

Untitled (Chantecaille Sel) (2012)

I have learned that one of the frustrations in editing huge high resolution files is that they periodically get scrambled, but I have come to think of this as a happy mistake because what was once simply an eye shadow swatch can be transformed into a Postmodern work of art as the "swatch" above can attest (click here to see the actual unscrambled swatch). I am so compelled by these visual abstractions that occasionally serendipitously appear, that I have decided to save these images and start a series.