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To be honest, I was mostly playing around with found code and changing the variables to warm myself up to p5js. What I like about the current sketch is its element of motion detection and how it only highlight imprints or residuals, and what is left after the gesture is completed. I love Somnath Bhatt's work, particularly his process (quoted below), and would love to dive more into the concept of excavation and bodies in digital space.
I like the metaphor of excavation because it denotes layers– narrative layers, psychic layers, layers of risograph ink, and Photoshop layers, too. Drawn at the lowest resolution in photoshop, the pixelated drawings convey forms in their pre-symbolic order. , , By default, as image-makers today we’re always co-writing with machines, co-writing with data, co-writing with algorithms., , I work towards–, – drastically altering our contact with these tools, – re-encountering objects, bodies, and language as strange things, – making odd, bent, overlayed, twisted forms, – using tools for synthesis rather than editing