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A "Memphis-style" 1980s artwork of separate distinct visual planes giving the impression of another dimension, a post-modern reality of pure mathematical forms in physical layers, familiar to us today as an illusion on lit screens, but this is a physical static piece, made to mount on a wall in the era of Tron and Xanadu, well before these shapes could be easily conjured in light on any desktop by the public. Like futurism and art deco and sci-fi of all kinds, it uses old-fashioned techniques to point toward a near, but as yet only imagined, future. It makes you wonder what our screens are pointing us toward now, not just VR but beyond.

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A "Memphis-style" 1980s artwork of separate distinct visual planes giving the impression of another dimension, a post-modern reality of pure mathematical forms in physical layers, familiar to us today as an illusion on lit screens, but this is a physical static piece, made to mount on a wall in the era of Tron and Xanadu, well before these shapes could be easily conjured in light on any desktop by the public. Like futurism and art deco and sci-fi of all kinds, it uses old-fashioned techniques to point toward a near, but as yet only imagined, future. It makes you wonder what our screens are pointing us toward now, not just VR but beyond.
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Tarnport (tarnport@mastodon.green)'s status on Thursday, 12-Oct-2023 16:22:46 JST Tarnport

An 80s "Memphis-style" #Painting by Neil Loeb from a retail site. I'm most interested in the back view, the "bones." It's made to look glossy and post-modern machine-generated ethereal, but that's only artifice, not so different than the illusions of traditional representational art which claim to be windows onto landscapes or people's faces, but in fact are only 2D paint on canvas, too. Rags, wood, pigment - and in this case some bolts, too - arranged to trick the mind into seeing more.

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