Tag: assignment prompt

Assignment – The Keeper of Crossroads – Reimagining Analog & Digital Fusion

A Reimagined Analog and Digital Fusion image of abstract shapes and forms composed in harmony - values of reds, blues, oranges and yeloows are presentAssignment Title: Keeper of Crossroads – Reimagining Analog and Digital Fusion

Assignment Introduction:

Every so often, an artwork finds a way to call itself back into your life.

While traveling and reflecting on a new chapter of growth, I stumbled across an image from my archive, a digital illustration I originally created back in 2013. I had almost forgotten about it, but somehow, it kept resurfacing, almost demanding my attention. The artwork, which I now call Keeper of Crossroads, started as a physical cut paper collage, full of bold shapes, raw energy, no rules, just pure intuition, forms, and color.

After scanning or photographing the original, I spent hours playing with it digitally. I intentionally “degenerated” the resolution in Photoshop, pushing it into that gritty world I loved so much, the feeling of vintage offset lithography from the 1960s–80s, like the textures you find in old comics and mass-printed magazines.

At the time, I was simply following my curiosity. I didn’t realize I was making something that would eventually feel like a visual prophecy. Now, more than a decade later, I recognize this piece as a fusion of timelines, mediums, and energies, a symbol bridging the analog and the digital, the remembered and the reimagined.

 

It feels only right to now turn this discovery into an invitation for you to create your own “Keeper of Crossroads.”

 

The Assignment Prompt:

  1. Create a piece of digital artwork that begins from a physical, hands-on medium (for example: a collage, a drawing, a painting, a sculpture, even a rough paper cutout).

2. Then, digitize your piece — either by scanning, photographing, or documenting it with your phone.

3. Once digitized, use Photoshop (or a digital app of your choice) to “degenerate” and transform it.

Play with resolution changes, filters, color distortions, and texture overlays. Let the imperfections guide you. The goal is not to polish the image — the goal is to merge the analog spirit with digital experimentation. Let the unexpected surprises that happen through the process become part of the final piece’s story.

 

What to Submit:

•A digital version of your final artwork (JPEG or PNG format preferred).

•2–3 sentences reflecting on the process.

 

Some questions you can answer:

•What was your physical starting point?

•What surprised you when you moved into the digital world?

•How did it feel to let go of “perfect” and embrace imperfection?

 

Optional Bonus:

Share a side-by-side image showing your original physical piece and the final digital piece.

Have Fun!

An Agent of Accountability – A Digital Storytelling Prompt

An Agent of Accountability – A Digital Storytelling Prompt

*Assignment prompt – Create and apply digital imagery to exercise, express and extend a metaphor 

(this post is my example)

 

<begin-transmission>

An agent has manifested from with-in you. You are fully responsible for creating and bringing the agent forward. You might not understand what that means just yet, but you will. The agent is made out pixels and rasters. Each pixel is recordable and programable. They each hold a unique series of your emotions, behaviors, interactions and potentials. The agent lives completely on screen and is co-dependent on your device usage and screen time. You thought that you could hide behind the screen, potentially conceal your identity, remain anonymous, and a mystery… but the agent knows otherwise. The agent is here for accountability.

The journey begins from here.. please scroll down.

This image above was seemingly the first recorded visual iteration of the Agent. It’s meta data has been corrupted and continues to be untraceable.. there is also evidence of the original file reconfiguring itself by single characters just to jam the reading/extraction or processing of the information for testing.

A visualization was created above to show “how” the agent entered the Internet grid. The simulation suggests that it was through an open port glitch. This is a vast statement as the range of “open ports” are extremely infinite as uploads and software updates take place around the clock, server to server, port to port. There is an unproven theory that agents can and do enter the grid from simple plug-in updates via the open-source platform, WordPress..

The image above is the most current image that continues to manifest in multiple places. Although there continue to be iterations, much like the two images below that were discovered in late April, 2021. The origin of the iterations are still speculative and only educated guess’s continue to surface with little to no real science based data as to why. What do the iterations represent? Why are they needed? Are they metaphors for pressing / avoided inner demons and issues? Are they there to continue to remind us that we are in a loop? We will continue to follow the process and keep you updated..

<transmission- snip>