Materials & Meaning

You'll understand why the ridge of dried paint or the grain of pressed paper still carries information no screen can hold, even as generated images multiply without limit. We look at what texture actually communicates to a viewer standing close to the work.

You'll see what tends to go missing from a finished piece when the preparatory drawing is generated rather than drawn by hand, from awkward anatomy decisions to the small corrections that teach you something. We tested this on three subjects to find out what the shortcut actually costs.