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I've been working on Sky River for over a year. This piece integrates different sculptures, and paintings of both environments and subjects. Sky River brings these many worlds into a more unified expression of the whole.

This represents iteration through synthesis, a process by which disparate elements can become one in order to serve a greater whole. I’ve historically had the challenge of reinventing the wheel in many different fields. If I don’t understand the foundations of why something functions as it does, I have a lot of hesitation in integrating it into a project I’m working on. Sky River was an opportunity to reframe my relationship with existing creation instead of just leaving things exiled in their own void of being done. Working to take the strengths of past projects and allowing them to be more, applying them in different contexts.

I experienced some level of internal resistance in making this shift, feeling there’s always a ‘better’ that can be done and using that as a justification to just start a new thing from scratch repeatedly. Better doesn’t require starting from nothing, and thinking that’s the only way to improve is counterproductive. The ability to harness created infrastructure of both content and skills enables new opportunities to present themselves.

This iterative synthesis has been reflected in many areas of my life as I learn about modding UMVC3, where learning how to use pieces that exist in new and interesting ways is the base work flow instead of being an outlier.

Iterative synthesis as a practice shares a lot of parallels with consumption, the act of taking already created resources and reapplying them to build a greater whole. This expresses through the piece via the abundance of the figure, and in the contrast between elements integrating and overlapping.

Where are you investing unnecessary energy simply because of internal blocks against using the resources that are available? What are fields in your life where the synthesis of many pieces is greater than the sum of their parts? How can creative reuse be applied to projects that are meaningful for you to harness the power of your previous creation?

--Isicera

Description

I've been working on Sky River for over a year. This piece integrates different sculptures, and paintings of both environments and subjects. Sky River brings these many worlds into a more unified expression of the whole.

This represents iteration through synthesis, a process by which disparate elements can become one in order to serve a greater whole. I’ve historically had the challenge of reinventing the wheel in many different fields. If I don’t understand the foundations of why something functions as it does, I have a lot of hesitation in integrating it into a project I’m working on. Sky River was an opportunity to reframe my relationship with existing creation instead of just leaving things exiled in their own void of being done. Working to take the strengths of past projects and allowing them to be more, applying them in different contexts.

I experienced some level of internal resistance in making this shift, feeling there’s always a ‘better’ that can be done and using that as a justification to just start a new thing from scratch repeatedly. Better doesn’t require starting from nothing, and thinking that’s the only way to improve is counterproductive. The ability to harness created infrastructure of both content and skills enables new opportunities to present themselves.

This iterative synthesis has been reflected in many areas of my life as I learn about modding UMVC3, where learning how to use pieces that exist in new and interesting ways is the base work flow instead of being an outlier.

Iterative synthesis as a practice shares a lot of parallels with consumption, the act of taking already created resources and reapplying them to build a greater whole. This expresses through the piece via the abundance of the figure, and in the contrast between elements integrating and overlapping.

Where are you investing unnecessary energy simply because of internal blocks against using the resources that are available? What are fields in your life where the synthesis of many pieces is greater than the sum of their parts? How can creative reuse be applied to projects that are meaningful for you to harness the power of your previous creation?

--Isicera