Emblaster
Emblaster is a digital art project inspired by Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin. In the novel, Sadie, one of the protagonists, creates a game called Emilyblaster, in which words from a particular Emily Dickinson poem fall from the screen. Players are meant to shoot the words, in a space-invaders fashion. Emblaster is my interpretation of this game, on the web.
Process
I initially had implemented many other features that are not present in the current version -- there was a global leaderboard, score-keeping, support for multiple levels with different poems (Meditation at Lagunitas, Meditations on Moloch) and varying levels of difficulty.
But I found that I preferred a minimal approach to the game -- no score, no leaderboard, infinite repetition -- it is not possible to win Emblaster -- the game just keeps repeating -- it is only possible to lose. Maybe there's something artistic in there, lol.
Evenstone
Evenstone is a photograph series and digital art project inspired by Claude Monet's series of Rouen Cathedral. Monet depicted the cathedral in varying lighting conditions, and had a saying reflecting this: "everything changes, even stone". A recurring though has been "change is the only constant".
Inspired by Monet and this thought, I stood in front of Diamond Head, a volcano in Hawaii, over the course of an entire day in fall of 2022. I took pictures as the lighted changed. I found it beautiful that the same mountain could look so different -- and change so much -- even in short periods of time.
For the transitions, I wrote custom matrix transformation code in Typescript.
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