Digital Collages

Digital Collages are computer generated pieces made from different bits of source material.  Some are intended to remain digital while others such as "Porn Star Number Five" became printed murals, and the "Tamaq Coin" is an illustration in one of my novels.

I use digital art a lot, especially for marketing my real world businesses.  While those pieces are definitely worthy as art, I haven't included them on this page.  You can find them on the Posters page under the 2D Visual Art tab up top.

Also not included here are digital images from my forays into virtual worlds, because that collection is absolutely massive.

You can find those pieces under the Virtual Worlds and 3D Creations sections of the site.

Damaged Goods (Digital Art 1999) is an angry and intimate piece from the year leading up to leaving my long and toxic marriage.

It's not a particularly merit-worthy artwork but it's real, and real is always worth recording lest we forget the path we travelled.

Quiet souls who ever went through a vicious break-up will relate to this.

Dawn Boy (Digital Art 1999) is part of The Edge series.  Designed in Ulead iPhoto and Microsoft Picture It.

Dawn Boy features a ghostly figure out in the bay.  Printed as a poster, its effect is quite haunting.

Dawn Boy Revisited (Digital Art 2006) is a reflection on the emotion that went into the original seven years earlier.

That emotion aside, the newer version really highlights the huge advances in digital imaging technology during the intervening years.

Goddess (Digital Art 1999) is part of The Edge series, and was produced within a few days of the original Dawn Boy piece.

Goddess was designed in Ulead iPhoto and Microsoft Picture It.

Only the Stars are Real (Digital 2005) is a self portrait given the Photoshop treatment.

Inspiration for this piece came from the way that the sun refracted through hanging crystals by the window and lit up the dust mites in the air.  They seemed to me to be tiny galaxies.

This then turned my mind to the space race of the sixties, hence the Russian characters spelling out the title of the piece in English.

Pixies and Demons (Digital 2005) is another self portrait.

Made in Photoshop 7 using various new filters and tools that weren't available in earlier versions.

Porn Star Number Five (Vinyl Mural 2008) is digitally cut vinyl on pine 1200mm x 900mm.

Porn Star Number 5 gets its name for a photo of some random guy on the web amongst a bevy of others.

His handle was simply '5' and he had one of those ridiculous porn star pouts on his face.  Hence the name.

Still photo passed through Photoshop CS2 then Illustrator, then Cut Studio.  Vinyl is 3M and Avery was cut on a Roland GX24.  It hangs in a gym in Brisbane.

Santa Jaius de Teyazzapardi (Stamp 2010) is one of a series of Thanacian postage stamps created as illustrations for my novel "Exile of Titania".  This stamp commemorates the 700th anniversary of one of the central heroes, Jai d'Erstinaya.

When a reader stumbles upon the illustration in the novel, especially if they have read the later novels set 700 years later, it's quite disturbing to see how history has misinterpreted Jai, at least from the Thanacian perspective.

Jai is shown here as a saint, whereas in his homeland of Khataria, he does not follow God but is a prophet and Seer of the Faith.  Analogies could be made to the interpretation of Jesus from Christian, Jewish, and Muslim perspectives.

Also troubling to the reader is that Thanacia has sought to erase Jai's true Khatarian heritage and altered his surname from d'Erstinaya (named for the town Erstinaya) to de Teyazzapardi, the state where he first came into contact with the Karystians.

Jai's photograph was taken on the Irukandji virtual continent, and the model is Jai Noel, who in fact is named after Jai in the book - Art is complicated :))

Other stamps in the series will be coming out soon.

The World is Made of Bubbles (Digital E-Collage 2005) is a self portrait given the Photoshop treatment.

Tiles (Vinyl Mural 2009) is another digitally cut vinyl on pine 1.2m x 900mm.

Tiles began as a still photo passed through Photoshop CS2 then Illustrator, then Cut Studio.

The mediums used are a combination of 3M and Avery matt and gloss vinyls.  The project was cut on a Roland GX24 and mounted on a pine sheet.

It hangs in the gym room at my house in Brisbane.

Pieces still to be added:

- Conjoined Twins Poledancing
- Kerlian Twins
- Tamaqi Coin
- Zanaes Pendant