Artist Entry: Aaron Higgins

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Aaron Higgins approaches his digital art in a way that I find absolutely fascinating. He considers the movement and layering of film the same way he would the movement of paint around a canvas. However, using video he can create a time-lapse painting that shows the evolution of the image throughout its creation. This takes fundamental concepts from traditional oil painting and provides them with new and dimension.


Overall I feel that this piece exemplifies Higgins ideas beautifully. In each frame of his video I can can see how the image could be a brilliant oil painting. What he has done is replaced the stroke of the brush with a very fluid and gaseous movement of mass and color. The sound gives the piece and interesting sense of scale and despite the small size of the video on the screen, it makes the piece feel as if it has an almost planetary scale.