STRUCTURAL PATTERN 2012 | Kaiserslautern
STRUCTURAL PATTERN 2012 | proAlpha Software Kaiserslautern
Geological image mosaic consisting of a total of 50 individual images, commissioned work | photo print on polyamide with UV protection on Aludibond | total size 305 x 510 cm
Geological image mosaic consisting of a total of 50 individual images, commissioned work | photo print on polyamide with UV protection on Aludibond | total size 305 x 510 cm
Statement Structural Pattern, jk 2012
The large-format mosaic picture makes a direct reference to the background of the software company proALPHA. The references are based on an aesthetic analogy between the multi-layered, site-specific geology of the Palatinate and the structural process models for programming processes. If the software language already speaks of process landscapes and process maps, the relationship to geology is obvious and poetically enriches the mostly hidden digital process sequences. These ratios of “inner” software processes to equally hidden, but in quarries revealed and thus visible processes of the earth's history, establish elementary references and expand the time-space dimension.
The numerous individual photographs come from various quarries in the Palatinate and show the geological transition from the global basement mountains (granite) to volcanic rock layers (melaphyre, porphyry, etc.) to the overlying red-orange sandstone sediments typical of the region from Earth-age seas. In addition to these barren yet life-giving rock structures, peripheral layers of vegetation and water (reflections) play an important role as recurring pictorial elements in the overall composition.
Correspondences and intersections of the diverse pictorial structures at picture borders, which in turn function aesthetically as interfaces, are essential. Geological corridor structures (in the lower part of the picture) are taken up in the overall geometric structure with individual picture elements that bridge the basic grid (50 x 50 cm) and evoke connections between different sectors (picture sections of 100 x 50 / 150 x 50 cm). Scale shifts in the form of individual macro shots in turn lead to crystal structures and thus mentally open the space into deeper dimensions - translated into software terminology, access to “source codes”.
The image concept is about central processes and overarching concepts such as: Interaction, unity and multipartiality, forwarding, similarity, mirroring, reversal, transformation, influence, dependence and independence...., which are concisely and mediatingly summarized in the transdisciplinary title term STRUCTURAL PATTERN.
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