Frank's Free Flowing Self Awareness - 2012

24" x 18" - Dye sublimation print on aluminum panel

A visualization of self-awareness as a dynamic, distributed process. The work presents a system of interconnected forms, at once discrete and continuous, evoking the fluid and recursive nature of identity. Though formally abstract, the piece speculates on how self-awareness might manifest as dynamic embodiment across physical or virtual domains.

About this series ↓

This series explores the primacy of information and questions the boundary between the physical and the virtual. The forms began as digital sculptures, created through geometric and volumetric modeling, then became physical objects through 3D printing. These images are simulated photographs of those 3D prints, created using physically based rendering to model the material properties of the translucent nylon used in the physical sculptures. Though they appear photographic, everything is virtual once again. The process reflects a recursive loop: virtual becomes physical, then physical becomes virtual, each step a different expression of the same underlying information. In this loop, conventional categories—sculpture and image, abstraction and realism, object and simulation, dissolve into one another, highlighting how representation, regardless of form, is ultimately itself information.