This is from January 2001. It began with a black and
white photograph of a naked human torso doing the splits. I
experimented with lots of different color schemes before
eventually turningthe torso bright flaming red and heavily
lacquering the whole picture. To me it looks something like an
exotic red flower.
These next two are textures I experimented with while
looking fir good backgrounds for a banner advertisement. I had a
convenient plugin to create the ocean texture above, but the one
below was more complicated. I started with a plain rainbow and
first clicked "Add Noise" in Adobe PhotoDeluxe.
I added a considerable amount of noise so it looked
very staticky. Then I experimented with my Lacquer plugin which
lacquered together various different dots of static until I got
the design you see here.
I created this one in May 2000 when I was playing
with a freeware three-dimensional modeling program called sPatch.
I had trouble getting the three-dimensional models to resemble
any shapes that I wanted them to, but once I gave up on depicting
actual objects and just went for abstract three-dimensional
shapes it worked interestingly enough. Then I just took the three-dimensional
shape I'd created and applied the same Lacquer plugin to it that
I used on the four pictures above.