DANNY LULU
GARDEN ELEMENTS
The crudely rendered waterfall projected against an inherited volcanic rock perfectly embodies the theme of Danny Lulu’s latest collection of works, Garden Elements. Here, Lulu reproduces vistas from the San Francisco Bay Area in highly articulated 8 bit style, and juxtaposes them with an equally pixelated rendering of the sky above Heart Mountain, Wyoming, where his Grandfather’s family was imprisoned during World War II. A wood block cut out of folding mountains with a lone cactus, and the solitary flicker of an animated campfire projected against a stone on raked sand creates an almost lonely, zen-like quietude. Garden Elements entails the breakdown of form into simple components: landscape into rock and sand, image into pixel, and history into symbol. The enormity of the natural world and of the histories it contains are abridged into the bits and bytes of a computer graphics program. Mediation by computer picks up where other technologies, such as photography’s fallacious realism, have failed. From here, we can see the flat structures of every part. We can choose the elements we wish to use to build a new, more readable world.
To learn more about Danny Lulu and his work visit:
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For inquiries regarding the works in Garden Elements, please email the artist directly at danny.lulu@gmail.com
