Shawn Smith is responsible for these amazing pixelated animal sculptures made from square rods cut from plywood which are colored with ink. Smith blends the digital pixel based 2D world into our 3D environment.
He says,
I find images of my subjects online and then create three dimensional sculptural representations of these two-dimensional images. I Build my “Re-things’ pixel by pixel to find out how each pixel plays a crucial role in the identity of an object. Through the process of pixilation, color is distilled, some bits of information are lost, and the form is abstracted. Making the intangible tangible, I view my building process as an experiment in alchemy, using man-made composite and recycled materials to represent natural forms.
At first glance I thought these were old school Nintendo screen captures and to my surprise were 3D sculptures. Truly amazing stuff. Shawn Smith is based out of Austin, Texas and earned his MFA at the California College of the Arts.
