Interpretation of Sol Lewitt’s Wall Drawing #915
My interpretation of Sol Lewitt’s work in the form of an interactive sketch that uses hover and randomness to generate intriguing arcs and patterns
I began the process by analyzing the prompt behind Lewitt’s Drawing and tried to quickly pick out the features that stood out to me in the post. The following art installation at the Paula Cooper Gallery was used in the analysis step:
The parts of the installation that stood out the most to me are the use of opaque colors and the use of circles and arcs to create movement in an otherwise seemingly static installation. Since the colors chosen by the artists in the above installation provoked a sense of exaggerated excitement in me, I decided to use more soothing colors in my sketch. I tried to achieve this by Playing with the transparency of the colors used in the shapes of the sketch as well as by scaling the colors to a value closer to white to represent a pastel-like variant of the random colors generated.
I made the conscious choice of taking a minimalist approach to this interpretation of Lewitt’s work. This was achieved by using circles (varying sizes) as the only primitive shape in the sketch. A level of complexity and intrigue was added to the sketch by layering the circles in different positions and different opacities across the different layers.
To add a layer of interaction to the sketch, I have allowed the user to be able to interact with the sketch using their mouse pointer. As the user drags their mouse across the canvas, a new sketch gets formed on the canvas at different frame rates. So as the user drags the mouse further along the x-axis, a new sketch is generated faster. This also helps in adding movement to the sketch.
