Dr. John Antoine Labadie – The Powers That Be

Digital Print

During the past fifteen years my art work has evolved as a result of two primary factors: working as a scientific illustrator in Central America and the American southwest and, a deep professional involvement in investigating the fine arts applications of computer graphics prints and other digital visualization techniques.

It is difficult to isolate a single source of inspiration for the iconography or themes in my images although I often focus on aspects of observable growth and change and, consciously, on the unprecedented ways of working that computing and related technology allow. Even so, working with computer-related resources is, in most significant ways, much the same as working in more traditional atomic media. In this regard I recognize the continuity of the themes established in my undergraduate paintings of nearly thirty years ago.

With the interface granted by contemporary graphics software and hardware it is now possible to work nearly as quickly as inclinations evidence themselves. Painting with light through a powerful processor, pushing one thousand-plus megabytes of ram, while being granted a near-unlimited palette and photographic resolution does allow for media interaction without equal in any form of studio work prior to digital. The overall goal of my digital work at this time is the presentation of a coherent body of visual thinking constructed with a vocabulary and syntax that is transcultural and accessible primarily through the seductiveness of the images.

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