I am combining my portraiture work with my ‘A Story in 10 Chapters’ work which tells a story in open readable and encrypted text. This work is made possible by a grant awarded by Nevada State Arts Council. I am working on 10 new drawings that merge portraiture with encrypted story telling. I am using the same encryption technique using an RSA cypher called RSA/ECB/PKCS1Padding. The encrypted text is embedded in the drawing and tells a story about the picture. The combining of these two bodies of work will allow me to experiment with my realistic and symbolistic drawing techniques.
The other underlying theme of this work is also to highlight the importance and versatility of the pencil when expressing ideas and thoughts. The pencil enables the user to write, doodle or draw without the fear of making a mistake. A pencil mark can be replaced, redrawn, or removed completely.
The work will be displayed in a new Virtual Reality gallery and will be accessed using a QR Code placed at a ‘partnership’ IRL gallery. Working in both a real-world gallery and VR also provides access to a different group of people who would not normally want to, or physically cannot, visit a gallery.
