ABSTRACT
Texture brings immediacy, a direct physical connection, to an image. When it is made entirely within a program, digital art can sometimes look too clean, artificial and lacking in character. It needs real texture to breathe life into it. I like oldness in such a new medium; it gives an image “soul”. Pictures that are too surgically crisp and flawless can lose their bite, for me. I love “messy”, damaged-looking, textured images with clues as to their making, their evolution or their history. There is a reality and a truth in using worn, genuine objects that have been loved and have decayed, which carry the marks of a past and tell a story; they bring life with them. They give veracity to computer art that can otherwise be too distant from real experience. The presence of the old within the new technology links the images to the past and to humanity.
