Pascal Dombis
Pascal Dombis is a digital artist who uses computers and algorithms to produce a lot of repetition of simple processes. He has been doing this for twenty years and uses geometrical or typographical sign. Dombis lives and works in Paris and earned his engineering degree from Insa University in Lyon. He started using computers in 1987 at Tufts University where he took computer art classes. He is noted for his excessive use of simple algorithmic rules. Dombis originally worked with simple rules like drawing a straight like. Then he used digital tools to make visual forms appear, but still by using these simple rules. He does not have a structure made up in his mind in advance, he uses simple rules and lets them go through a series of interactions.
RightRong, 2007-2012
Géométries Irrationnelles, 2008 / Galerie Municipale, Vitry sur seine, FR
Mixed_Grill(e), 2014
Eurasia, 2012
Pascal Dombis uses lines and shapes and words and repeats them many times and puts them in a interesting way. I really like the way he uses line because it makes you want to continue to look at his images. Sometimes I feel like artists use way too much and can go overboard when making an image but I really like his work because he does go overboard. But the way he does too much makes it interesting and he does it in a way that is not "too much". Most of his works he uses many layers to make it look like it is 3D. I have no idea how he does this but it is very interesting. The video I have above is of a floor that he put thousands of layers of words and phrases and it looks 3D. The person in the video touches the floor to show you it is not 3D but really one image.
I think it is amazing how he can trick your eye just by putting multiple layers of one graphic together. I feel like if you really look at his work there is no true composition, but as a whole there is definitely a great composition. I feel like because he uses so many layers, he keeps your eye into his artworks. It is probably impossible to see every little thing in his work but it is cool to try to look at all of the different layers. He also has many deep meanings to his work and why he does certain things. The only one that I found a meaning for was the first image I have of his called RightRong. In the image it shows over and over again the words "I am right, you are wrong". He says he did this to try to show that no one is ever truly right or wrong. I'm sure there is meaning to all of his art and it would be interesting to know what each thing means. I also think knowing that his work has meaning just makes it that much better.
I think it is amazing how he can trick your eye just by putting multiple layers of one graphic together. I feel like if you really look at his work there is no true composition, but as a whole there is definitely a great composition. I feel like because he uses so many layers, he keeps your eye into his artworks. It is probably impossible to see every little thing in his work but it is cool to try to look at all of the different layers. He also has many deep meanings to his work and why he does certain things. The only one that I found a meaning for was the first image I have of his called RightRong. In the image it shows over and over again the words "I am right, you are wrong". He says he did this to try to show that no one is ever truly right or wrong. I'm sure there is meaning to all of his art and it would be interesting to know what each thing means. I also think knowing that his work has meaning just makes it that much better.
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