Frozen Moment

I made instances of the same figure and placed them in a circle. Their orientation is random. Made of glass lines they are fragile. Most of the time I try to create images which would be difficult as a conventional drawing or painting. The feeling of line, glass, lights, space and shadows introduces special qualities.

One of the challenges with computer modeling is to pose a figure in an interesting way. Modeling a figure in clay is much easier. Then have the clay model scanned and entered as a file. In the above pose I used computer modeling but I was lucky. She has the feel of a fashion model.

Plagiarism

This image raises some interesting questions. I did not create the data representing the flowers and the vines. Somebody did an excellent job of modeling the flowers and especially the vines with leaves. It was free data captured from the internet. I modified the data and made instances or copies of it. The original data was too mechanical and so I played with my fragmentation tool. I introduced transparency and the colors and placed the objects in 3d space. Also my concept about space and figure to ground relationships are a factor.

Who is the artist here? Is it the people who created the models or is it me? Who should get credit for this work?