Professor John Hyatt
The Illustrated Work Zone
Many will know what I mean when I say there is a state, a place in the mind, that - when everything is going well - the artist, the musician, or the repetitive labourer (all of which I am) finds himself. It is the Work Zone. It is a path, like in fairyland, that must be followed to its end before the wanderer can rest.The Illustrated Work Zone performs a series of mathematically determined mutations and aesthetic feedback responses, using Photoshop, to provide a series of illustrations/snapshots through a particular set of Work Zones. My practice is made up of multiple overlapping and interlacing Work Zones, through which (according to the motto on the Hyatt coat-of-arms) I "do and hope": I do what must be done and hope for a happy ending that will bring all the paths together again.
 Start point for IWZ 1. If one manipulates a portrait of Elizabeth, is the manipulated image still a portrait? |
 IWZ 1, No.1 |
 IWZ 1, No.2 |
 IWZ 1, No.3 |
 IWZ 1, No.4 |
 IWZ 1, No.5 |
 IWZ 1, No.6 |
 IWZ 1, No.7 |
 IWZ 1, No.8 |
 IWZ 1, No.9 |
 IWZ 1, No.10 |
 IWZ 1, No.11 |
 IWZ 1, No.12 |
 IWZ 2, Nos.1 - 3. It struck me that the famous "Young Hare" by Durer has a form rhyme with his "Large Turf": the first painting of such a "mundane" subject to be presented as a finished work (Google the originals). I proceeded to merge the two. |
 IWZ 2, No.4 |
 IWZ 2, No.5 |
 IWZ 2, No.6 |
 IWZ 2, No.7 |
 IWZ 2, No.8 |
 Start point (this Unimagined Landscape 1 painting from the Experimental Painting Project was "found" in the world (Lake District) one month after the painting as a photograph (IWZ 3, No.1), merged (IWZ 3, No.2) and manipulated. |
 IWZ 3, No.1 |
 IWZ 3, No.2 |
 IWZ 3, No.3 |
 IWZ 3, No.4 |
 IWZ 3, No.5 |
 IWZ 3, No.6 |
 IWZ 3, No.7 |
 IWZ 3, No.8 |
 IWZ 3: No.9 |