My work is about structures, patterns, shapes and surfaces. I capture, manipulate, recreate and visualise by using photography and CGI (computer generated imagery).

While I capture details and structures of real-world objects through photography, CGI allows me to create virtual objects and, subsequently, apply real-world textures to them. This fusion of reality and virtuality often creates an entirely new virtual reality, unreal objects with real surfaces.

Wherever I use photography as the primary means of creation, close-up shots and large size prints lend importance to the insignificant by transforming the small into the large, and by laying focus on details that would otherwise remain unnoticed. By hyper-focusing on these details, I encourage the viewer to look beyond the apparent and to apply a ‘second look’ at the unknown that lies underneath the surface. It is this ability to see and recognise the smallest of details in the wholeness of life that so many of us have lost, but which is, today more than ever, such a crucial skill to understand the world.

Repetition, symmetry, parallels and simplification are some key elements in my work as an artist. These elements exert a fascination on me, and they help provide a structure for my often restless mind by helping transform complex thoughts and ideas into simplified visual images. These images are then easy to process, communicate and remember. Particularly formal repetition can reassert a sense of order to an otherwise chaotic mind.

Depriving my artwork of vibrant colours and removing the impression of depth from it by applying a front-on view with no visible vanishing point is a further step of simplification and removal of distraction, thus making complex concepts more easily digestible.

By allowing viewers to focus on the very details of the apparent I encourage them to discover the unfamiliar behind the familiar. This moment of focusing may eventually initiate a thinking process based on discovery and surprise that helps gain a deeper insight into the nature of those common things around us that we never pay attention to or reflect about.

Artist Bio
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David Janos, October 2020