I’m a natural process artist from the US, and that means that I use various natural processes as a basis for my imagery. I wrote a blog post about it here, which describes it and how it came to be, but it can be described more quickly by saying that it uses the process of sediment deposition to apply pigments, which is the same process by which rivers produce deltas, and alluvial fans in nature. It’s also similar to the way the waves on a beach can arrange different sand grains, according to their size, weight, and density, resulting in beautiful patterns due to their contrasting colors.

This painting technique still doesn’t have a name. My original name was “natural process painting” because it utilized not just sediment deposition, but fractal field imagery - but then I realized that natural process art was much bigger than just my artwork, even though I was initially struggling to describe only it, and even though it could theoretically still be called “natural process painting”, I soon learned that there were others painting with natural processes.

So my artwork fits in right about here…

I’ve made a community for natural process art here, and I’ve been trying to make one for fractal field painting but no server seems to let me create more than 1 community.

I’ve always loved science & nature every bit as much as art, so I’m hopeful that I can find a home here among some like-minded people, who might enjoy a juxtoposition of them!

  • Salamander@mander.xyzM
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    1 year ago

    Hello Loren! Welcome! And thank you for the nice introduction. I had the opportunity to skim through your blog post and several details grabbed my attention, so I will definitely set some time aside to read it in detail in the coming days.

    What do you mean when you say that the server does not allow you to create more than one community? What error do you see? I could not find a limit to the number of communities a user can create in the admin settings.

    • Loren@mander.xyzOP
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      1 year ago

      Thank you, and thank you for the server! Whenever I try to create a second community, the circling arrow which appears when you hit “submit” never goes away. I have tried and tried for days now. No matter what server I use, I can only create just 1 community. I thought maybe there was a limit per day, but it’s every day. I’ve restarted my browser, my PC, my modem, my router - everything I can think of.

      • Salamander@mander.xyzM
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        1 year ago

        Found the problem. There is a bug in the current version of Lemmy that causes forms that failed in some way when being filled to show the circling arrow forever. Your community Name returned this error and it hung up forever. I’ve looked through the source code and the community name length is limited at 20 characters.

  • elavat0r@mander.xyz
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    1 year ago

    Thank you for sharing your art. I read through your blog post, and I’m sincerely moved. Your original process was so creative, but there’s something really beautiful about training a generative model on your own work and making something entirely new.

    I’m deeply intrigued by the idea of fractal field art. I became interested in procedurally generated art in Processing a few years ago. I created some projects, mainly random shape generation and pseudo glitch art. It’s a hobby that’s fallen to the wayside for me recently. But you’ve inspired me to dig a little deeper and look into some new techniques.

    I look forward to seeing more of your art and what you have to share!

    • Loren@mander.xyzOP
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      1 year ago

      Thank you so much, I’m glad I could inspire someone! I used RunwayML to create my own models to generate from, but these days there are likely way more options. If you decide to take the plunge just let me know, and I may be able to save you some headaches! THANK YOU for your interest, and for reading the blog post!

  • kevin@mander.xyz
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    1 year ago

    Lovely! Do you mostly sell physical pieces, or do you do prints too? Given those images, I’m guessing photography is in your skill set as well

    • Loren@mander.xyzOP
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      1 year ago

      Thank you!! I mostly sell physical pieces, but I do have prints for sale also. I love photography, but I have to take about 20 pictures just to get 1 that looks pretty good. :p