"Artist Megumi Naitoh has always been fascinated with traditional mosaics and draws inspiration from Byzantine and Roman tiles to reanimate the media with contemporary methods. Naitoh says, “I am interested in exhibiting visuals that articulate the overpowering of current technology. For the past five years I have been working with pixilated images that are a reflection of the fast-paced and frequently uncontrollable aspects of technology.”
Beginning with digital photographs of friends, Naitoh downloads the images to her computer and separates the colors to make a silk screen which is glazed onto clay. The piece is then fired, cut into thousands of tiny tiles and mounted onto Plexiglas in grid formation, similar to pixels in a digital photograph. The resulting works are mosaic with over twenty layers of prints and six colors of underglazes. The color, size and texture combine to create unique mosaic portraits that reveal intimate details about the subject, artist and viewer."
Madelyn Jordan Gallery statement
This is such a clever merger of technology and art and the ceramic pieces are really beautiful. One day will get the kiln fired up and have a try!!
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