.Ryan Scheidt
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The Swarm of Sight: Painting Series

This series also includes observational photography (mental notes and cues taken from natural systems)
you can click the link here to arrive at the photography page which includes the Swarm of Sight: Photography archive.

Protoform

In this project I worked together with a group of friends to test the effect of scale on the press painting method. In the end I felt the process of making it was as interesting if not more so than the finished result.

Cultivation

I'A series of works that use physical contact to set the paint on a canvas or board. This method press painting employs methods used to make woodblock prints or monotypes, but directly to the finished surface.

Mulitiplicity

Paintings based on probability of distribution. I would use various gridding structures in order to deisperse random colors across a field.
How were they random you ask? Each cell recieved random dice rolls or numbers derived from a random number generator. These numbers
would then correspond to colors that were selected by lottery from the paint manufacturer. The goal here was to increase the potential for a variety different outcomes.

Random Generation: Aleatory Divisions

Paintings based on the division of a meandering line the direction of which was determined by spinning the pencil on the surface of the canvas. The shapes that are formed are filled in with colors drawn from a lottery.

Random Generation: Measured Probability

Paintings based on the division of a meandering line the direction of which was determined by dice rolls and a coordinate system on surface of the canvas. The shapes that are formed are filled in with colors drawn from a lottery.