 '... of Cotton & Rope' is part 1 of the CreatureBizarro series, a work in progress. 
This is first of three themes about the survival of African-Americans from enslavement and US history rooted in the dehumanization of forced labor of the cotton fields harvesting the ingredient used to create the rope, the very tool used against them for violence and lynching. 

Design and Animation by Angelique E. Anderson | Music by Steve Sandberg | Choreography by Kyle Marshall
Special thanks to Todd Bryant and Staff at NYU Tandon School of Engineering, NYC, for motion capture and technical assistance.
©2023, Angelique E. Anderson. All rights reserved.

'...of Cotton & Rope'

One of a series of works that explores how color changes can make still images appear to have movement .The creation of artwork through the use of spheres is a focus of my practice and all of the images in this series were created inside three dimensional spheres.

Color Roulette #5

Color Roulette #3

Color Roulette #2

Color Roulette #1

Trancing Field

The things we take to be our reality can be irrevocably altered in an instant, while the world goes on, oblivious to the private moments it contains. We are only passing through.



In Due Time

"Watcher" represents The Child, a series of works based on my short story, "The Occurrence: Part 1"

The Occurrence: Part I
Out of the blue of an otherwise perfectly ordinary day, it came careening down from the sky, crashing in a spectacular and seemingly endless cloud of shimmering ash that spread throughout the land, sparing nothing. No one could possibly have known what would ensue. When the dust finally settled, it was onto a world that would be forever transformed. Some say it began on the day that The Child first noticed an almost imperceptible difference in the colors on a snake. But it was still the Before Times, and no one yet understood.

What All agreed on, in retrospect, is that there is a dark side to seductive beauty that at first remains unseen…

The Occurrence: Watcher

The Surrealist

It's a journeypaint effort. It's number 3

Journeypaint is a custom built digital paint app

JOURNEYPAINT.EFFORT.03

Blushing should be watched on loop to calm the mind, or just because she's a beauty.

Blushing

Another painting from my collection dedicated to 5 year old me who wanted so desperately to be a ballerina. 

Quick Sip

Sweet Dreams

The rose has been a symbol of God's presence in various situations since ancient times. It offers a glimpse of the masterful creator's active handiwork in the world. As the rose blooms, its buds gradually open up to reveal blossoms with layers, illustrating how spiritual wisdom unfolds in people's lives.

"The Creator's Soul" represents emerging technologies that allow creators to explore different realities and perspectives. The rose symbolizes the creator's soul in the virtual realm, as they push the boundaries of creation across digital realities and realms through collaboration, imagination, and storytelling.

The artwork is a digitally painted and drawn-over photograph of the rose, using a color palette commonly used in the metaverse. The layers of paint splashes, doodles, and line work represent the collaboration of different art forms across different realities and realms.


A Creator's Soul

This digital collage/ gan art/ illustration started with a newspaper image of my Uncle Hanover and his childhood friend. 

“The young boys James Thompson and David Simpson with Kelly Alexander of the NAACP in Wadesboro, North Carolina in January 1959.” - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kissing_Case 

More info and interviews here. 
https://www.npr.org/2011/04/29/135815465/the-kissing-case-and-the-lives-it-shattered

I saved the rendering and collected images for the collage work: newspapers and advertisements meant to collect Black people, from running away, to take to prison, to work the land, front page photos, and art for The Kissing Case.

JPG 3600x2016

NFT owner has the right to resell the NFT and to publicly display the art. Owner may not reproduce, prepare derivatives, or distribute copies without the consent of the creator.

Monroe Jim Crow: The Kissing Case 

Very special augmented reality active NFT made with https://artivive.com/ 

Did you see the augmented reality nature of this piece of art and experience the entirety of it you will need the Artivive app on your phone 

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/artivive/id1188737494

Do you have this app you can point your phone at the screen and experience the animation and hear the music that I have created this amazingly unique piece of art 

Neural in Augmentation 

Welcome to un OTRO MUNDO, this is the first piece minted for COEXISTENCIA, a mixed-media digital art series that blends eco-feminism, indigenous futurism, magical elements, and co-existence with nature. Each piece depicts a surreal scene that captures an intimate moment with biomorphic creatures, mothers caring for their young or entities contemplating reproduction; an invocation of the conscious evolution of a new mythological human species.

Created by Protagonista (AKA Tanya Vlach), this series began as an experiment with generating fantasy scenes through AI processing in October 2022. The scenes are then refined and expanded in Procreate, and some pieces are further explored through an embodied and tactile process by physically adding different mediums for texture. By taking these precious scenes out of the digital realm transforming them it the physical, and then returning them into the digital as offerings, each NFT in the COEXISTENCIA series holds magical metaphysical properties

Welcome to un OTRO MUNDO  

We stand at the nexus of two worlds, a portal into the unknown. Two half’s representing a whole, one half a twin of the other, one represents the real, the other, the virtual. 

Trees also represent for me, conduits to other realms, they too are the nexus between worlds and dimensions, so I often represent them in my virtual work. They become the imaginative bridge between the physical and the virtual. They are the symbolic portals like Yggdrasil the world tree holding the nine worlds: this I think, is a perfect allegorical representation of the Metaverse. 

Portal Tree

This piece is a mixed media digital painting with free flow and expression. When I was younger I wanted so desperately to be a ballerina. I would borrow the same 10 books from the library over and over again just to admire the dancers and the outfits. I started to take ballet lessons at age 5, but shortly after was diagnosed with JRA. The doctors said I "couldn't" do it anymore.  I was devastated.
In this day and age, things would be different, but back then it was not common for a child to be diagnosed with an "old person's disease", and in so many instances people just didn't know what to do with me.
I don't think ballet was my calling, but somehow the beauty of it finds its way into my work every now and then. My expression is that I create...that is my calling. 

Fingers Crossed

The Occurrence: Part I
Out of the blue of an otherwise perfectly ordinary day, it came careening down from the sky, crashing in a spectacular and seemingly endless cloud of shimmering ash that spread throughout the land, sparing nothing. No one could possibly have known what would ensue. When the dust finally settled, it was onto a world that would be forever transformed. Some say it began on the day that The Child first noticed an almost imperceptible difference in the colors on a snake. But it was still the Before Times, and no one yet understood.

What All agreed on, in retrospect, is that there is a dark side to seductive beauty that at first remains unseen…

The Occurrence: The Child #1

This piece explores the interstitial space between portal thresholds.  What is the experience, how does it feel, what do you see. Instead of a instantaneous transition from one space to another, this seeks to capture the process.  The interstitial space between thresholds is an ephemeral and evanescent realm, where the boundaries of reality dissolve into a fluid and amorphous state, and the construct of time becomes elusive and ambiguous.

Translucent fluid form edges transform and hint at materials of rock, water, and clouds.  Illuminated concentric circles and ornamental lines act as wayfinding devices, guiding the viewer to the other side.

Multiple text2img, text2video, blends, and interpolations were used in fabricating this final piece. Music was also created in collaboration with artificial intelligence.

Music generated by Mubert https://mubert.com/render

Beyond the Threshold : The Portal

The central theme of GunsRule#02 is the problem of gun violence in the United States, which consistently harms the nation's children. Throughout history, the foundation of the United States has been established and dominated through gun violence. As a result, many lawmakers prioritize profit and money over the well-being of their constituents, particularly those they deem different from themselves, exhibiting little care for the lives of their own citizens, particularly children.
Special thanks to Francesco D'Andrea's rendition of the Star Spangled Banner (Jimi Hendrix style)
Format: MP4 (60 secs)
Dimension: 1920 × 1314 pixels
© Angelique E. Anderson. All rights reserved.

GunsRule#02

'ANCESTOR_01’ is part of a larger project entitled, 'Creature Bizarro.' exploring themes of the survival of African-descended people kidnapped & brought to the usA from the era of enslavement to the present-day acts of oppression. Themes of dehumanization and violence, family unity, and spiritual ties for healing are expressed through vivid imagery, haunting music, and live dancer's motion data captured via motion capture transfer to 3D-modeled characters and objects.
Dimensions: 3840 × 2160pixels
FORMAT: MP4 (20secs)

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