DARWIN'S DIGITAL 3VOLUTION

the creative process of digital art isn’t inspiration. It isn’t genius, or lightning, or any of the romantic nonsense the coffee shop philosophers talk about. It’s debris. Piles of it. Old folders, half-finished works-in-progress, and finished, polished completed prior works that seem to be 100% done...

But- bits and bones of previous attempts stacked like beer cans behind a dive bar.... You sit down in front of the screen and it’s not a blank canvas. That myth died the day computers learned to remember. Instead, the canvas is a graveyard. Every old layer, every abandoned pixel and overlay or level of distortion, every experiment that once felt brilliant in the middle of the night- is still there somewhere on the drive, lurking like a ghost waiting to be reanimated.

Digital artists rarely start from nothing. They rummage, and scavenge from the external world, and allow for major pixel distortion to give way toward maximizing the optimal mutation...like a Darwinian chain of digitized evolution...