Virtual to Real Seeds: Dreams of Spring, use nature as a model for designing phantasmagorical seeds. Imaginative artificial 3-D modeled seeds look at the evolved wisdom of plants and their ability to propagate by evolving to exploit wind, water, and animal fur, to spread their genes.
Seeds are the future of the plant and these works exist as models of future flowers possibly transgenic, yet to actually exist. They are printed as Giclee prints produced at the Centro Portuguese de Serigraphia in October 2013.
They are produced through research and study on the morphology of seeds and overall plant strategies.
The incredible variety of plant form and the intriguing strategies they have come to utilize in spreading their genes are fascinating. As plants are rooted in the ground and cannot travel to spread their genes the seeds are an important evolutionary strategy for propagation and can be seen as the most precious of developments, as they carry the next generation within.
In researching seeds and reading widely I think The Bizarre and Incredible World of Plants captures it perfectly with:
The seedings would have to compete for space, light, water, and nutrients with the parent plant and their siblings; and they would probably also encounter other unfavorable conditions and hazards such predators and diseases, possibly already attracted by the parent plant. Traveling gives them the chance to colonize new sites, thus expanding the range of the species.
In the end, the survival of not only the individual but of the entire species is dependent on the seed of reaching a suitable place of germination and establishment. Once ripe, a fruit has to somehow fulfill it true biological function, which is the dispersal of the seeds. The crucial role the fruits and seeds play in the life of a plant explains the great variety of dispersal strategies that plants have developed during the course of evolution. The strategies for dispersal – weather involving wind, water, animals and humans or an explosive force from the plant itself are reflected in a seemingly endless plethora of different colors, sizes, and shapes.
The works within this exhibition are conflations of animal form, natural lessons, and methods that would carry the potential seed rendered in hyper-realistic transgenic fashion. Bee seed the form of the bee, the hairs of the bee leg imagined with the coloring of the bee. Other works suggest seeds intermingling with the formal aspects of human form. As an artist, I am interested in seeds as a strategy – I am obsessed with the idea; that technology is also a seed.
It is a seed of knowledge, idea, and behavior actualized and sometimes propagated in culture.
While it would be easy to for example looks at all the negative technologies that have impacted our futures and who we are becoming, as an artist I have chosen to focus my energies, on creating real-world solutions that plant ideas and real solutions to the future.
The Seed series in the Museum for Insects demonstrates one benefit of digital works which is scalability.
Exhibitions:
THE JOHN B. AIRD GALLERY Toronto, Canada, November 2018
Digital Animalities curators/authors Giovanni Aloi and Matthew F. Brower invite works from The Seed Series on trans-species artworks.
WILD GOOSE CREATIVE GALLERY Columbus Ohio March 12, 2016
Illume Exhibition shows Cascading Gardens and works from Seed Series invited by Jessie Boetcher
CALDAS DA RAINA, MUSEU JOSE MALHOA, Portugal, April 2015
Works from the Seed Series Giclee prints curated by Joao Prates
Centro Portuguese de Serigraphia, Lisbon Portugal 2013
invited by the Antonio Prates Gallery and Joao Prates of CPS to produce this new series for an exhibition.
LUMOS GALLERY, Columbus, Ohio 2014
Exhibition of Seed Series Prints, Augmented Fish Reality and Paparazzi Bots Invited by Kayla & Nick Davis
PEABODY ESSEX MUSEUM in THE MUSEUM OF CRICKETS Salem, MA, 2013
A one-person exhibition of seed works and crickets sculptures exhibition in Amy Youngs Museum of Crickets.
Artist and director:
Ken Rinaldo
CREDITS/TECHNICAL
3D modeling: by Ken Rinaldo
Photography: Ken Rinaldo & Amy Youngs
Printing: Luis at Centro Portuguese de Serigraphy Lisbon Portugal
SHOW REQUIREMENT and DIMENSIONS
This work can be displayed with frames individually or in groups.
Sizes:
KEYWORDS
3D modeling, database, future city, Giclee prints, digital imaging, texture mapping
BIBLIOGRAPHY
http://www.shortnorth.org/gallery-spotlight-lumos-gallery 2/4 by Michelle Gibson
Umbigo Magazine, The Spring Dreams of Ken Rinaldo by Mariana Machado, 12/11/13
COLLECTIONS
MADEIRA MUSEUM The Collection of Norlinda and José Lima is housed at Núcleo de 2013
Arte of the Oliva Creative Factory of São João Portugal
The Antonio Prates Foundation
Centro Portoquese de Serigraphia
Christopher Summers
PURCHASE