Reverence

When I started working with landscapes in my digital art, it was always about how I could best represent the natural world in the digital. I explored the use of height maps from satellites and topography datasets and converted them into dynamic and shifting sculptures through one of my earliest pieces of work mountain_landscapes.

Sometime after, this work gave way to form Future Landscapes.
A collection of work that takes that information and displays it in a binary and digitalised version of a real-world landscape with a long-time inspiration from photogrammetry and point cloud processes.
This work really tried to explore the conversion and what an environment meant in the age of the metaverse.

But something was missing in my approach to showing the beauty of the natural world. While most of my work explores the bridge between the real and the digital and what things may come to be like. I lacked a way to explore the raw beauty of what we already have. As a child and growing up into my 20s, I adored the natural world. A lot of my early art in games showed this, advocating for exterior and vegetation-heavy game environments rather than artificially built corridors and houses.

In my explorations of using landscapes as a medium, using Unreal Engine I was able to combine them with VFX to create colourful and organic abstract compositions that reflected certain moods, feelings and thoughts on the world that surrounds us.
After a few compositions came out of the engine, I knew that this could be a new body of work that focuses on landscapes with a slight siding to the natural.

And so the birth of the Reverence Collection.

I find through the natural world I achieve most of my grounding and clarity in life. It has always been an anchor for when times get tough and for when I needed inspiration. It is also a place where I do a lot of deep thinking and inherently a lot of my ideas and values correlate with it.

Reverence is born from deep curiosity and appreciation of what we know and these compositions hope to reflect and provide a grounding and reflection that I have experienced over the years to the observer.