DAVID UMEMOTO: DIGITAL ARCHITECTURE

DAVID UMEMOTO: DIGITAL ARCHITECTURE

I wanted to explore the sculpture through the plexiglass medium - it's a material I have been fond of using in my personal work too - and highlight the beauty of its reflective and transparent qualities. I love the geometry, the rhythm of its forms, and the optical effects created when the individual pieces of the sculpture are layered together.

With geometric objects, photography blurs the lines with graphic design, and at times painting.

I like the effect when transparent materials are layered on top of each other; a visual trickery occurs. You’re not too sure if the image is made through photography or CGI. Is it real, 3D or 2D? I like this illusion.

The two-dimensional shapes transform into one another, emerging out of nothing. They metamorphose into this big organic structure that appears to grow and deconstruct infinitely, piece by piece. There is an ominous AI undercurrent present in the film that feels timely.