pixellated vision

2002
oil pastel on paper
18" x 24"

i drew this piece in a parking lot while waiting with some friends to sign the lease for a new apartment—i had a lot of time to kill. at the time, i had a drawing professor named dean dass who'd previously only taught printmaking and, thus, was obsessed with print processes. he made us go to the digital media lab in one of the libraries and scan images from a magazine into a computer, blow them up and distort them, then print them. this drawing was inspired by one of my blown-up images. i should probably thank dean right now, since i wasn't even an art major at the time, let alone with a digital art concentration. i had no idea what i was doing back then since i'd never really used photoshop before (how crazy is that?) and had to ask the person working the front desk at the lab what to do like every five seconds. weird!