"MOTH ROOM" ^©

Software:  TIPS
Platform: IBM PC (Targa 16), Summagraphics tablet

Straight, no frills painting with light (the
Impressionist's dream).

This piece goes back to Ringling School
of Art & Design where, as a potential honor
student, I was discreetly "invited to
leave" for attempting to do 'fine art' on a computer
(I guess in those days something akin to
consorting with devils).
It is often a fine line between innovation
and vocational suicide.

At the time I was much impressed with the
idea of the 'cloister,' each of us (students)
burning up hours upon hours on our
little illuminated manuscripts, the "function
keys" of the keyboard like the F-stops of
an organ, the rose windows of pure creation.

The "moth" has often emerged as a
personal totem.

1991