Gx - Anatomy of an Artwork

Some Artworks, and the Gx Collections as a whole, have taken years to cultivate and complete, with some pieces taking months, weeks or just days to create, each encompassing hundreds, if not thousands, of digitally crafted steps from their initial starting point.

I’ve never kept an exact log or diary, beyond archival edits, of how each individual pieces of artwork are created, as I feel it inhibits the intuitive creative process I create within, though, I thought it may be of interest to reference here a few visual examples of how several pieces from the collections came to be.

Below are two visual examples of how a piece of artwork starts to form, from initially image to final collection piece. Both example sections comprise of a brief selection of images of editing points, the final Gx Collections artworks and a selection of non-collection variants chosen from digital archives.

Example One is using various digital editing software to create a black background to which form, and colour is added for editing.

Example Two is using an original photographic image taken and used as a base image for editing.