February 29, 1993 v02

1993 + 2021 Victor Acevedo
Source: 1993 + 2021 Victor Acevedo

Victor Acevedo

February 29, 1993 v02 ,
Documents
  • February 29, 1993 v02
    image/jpeg
    845 × 720
Description
Archival Digital Print, Sizes: 8”x10” and 13”x19” Epson Pigment inks on cotton rag substrate or Light Jet digital photo prints. (plus custom sizes or NFT by special order)
Date created: 1993

Victor: I got a whimsical satisfaction in naming this picture and its variants after a day that never existed. You see, 1993 was not a leap year. There was no 29th day that year. The source photograph was taken at a Sunset Blvd art opening, that I attended in 1985. I recall that it was at the Ocaso Gallery. It was a group show of paintings which included works by Mark Gash. Among others in attendance were Kraig Grady, Anthony Ausgang, Melissa Mayo and Pierre Picot.

The image is basically a self-portrait of yours truly having a crown chakra explosion and a momentary past life regression. It was created in my West Hollywood apartment on Vista Street. It combines geometry from 1988-89 produced on an IBM PC with final image processing and editing done on a Macintosh IIci in 1993.

Like two frames in an animated sequence this is the same scene as in v1 but a few seconds later as the chakra explosion continues and the regression echo starts to feedback, bifurcate, and stabilize. In October 1993, this version was reproduced on the cover of PIXEL, a well known Japanese computer graphics magazine.

(excerpted from Acevedo in Context, 40-year career survey 1977-2020 with contributing author Peter Frank and others. To be published in 2022 by Acevedomedia
Keywords
  • aesthetics
    • ephemeral
    • illusionary
    • immersive
    • polysensory
    • three-dimensional
    • visual
  • genres
    • digital graphics
  • subjects
    • Arts and Visual Culture
    • Body and Psychology
    • Nature and Environment
  • technology
    • displays
      • electronic displays
      • non-electronic displays
    • hardware
      • MAC
    • interfaces
    • software
Technology & Material
Hardware
IBM PC clone, MAC IIci
Software
Cubicomp 3D, Photoshop 3.0
Bibliography