generativeart – Steve Meyfroidt, Artist

An Artist’s Book About Climate

I’ve spent a good part of 2022 working on ideas related to both the local climate and the changing global climate. Locally I’ve filled a sketchbook with drawings of the River Caldew not far from home, all made from the same place using coloured pencils and a brush pen in a beautiful Khadi book. ThatContinue reading “An Artist’s Book About Climate”

A tiny sketch: “Translation”

This short post describes some idea fragments that feel as if they might be developed from a simple sketch here into something more interesting, related to notions of “translation” in different forms. The work started from a group workshop at university (#weareoca) that asked us to work with “translation” in a couple of ways: firstlyContinue reading “A tiny sketch: “Translation””

Perception/Collage

A university assignment related to “collage as drawing” sent me running off to make a generative collage-making machine. While exploring the idea of gollage made using a software-assist, I encountered Ben Bogart’s Dreaming Machine #3, which started me thinking about how our eyes and brain perceive the world. When we look at an object, there’sContinue reading “Perception/Collage”