The Colonization of Technics is Sean Powers response to John Tunnard’s Pas de Deux. Powers was struck by Tunnard’s use of texture and translucent layers akin to digital imagery. Tunnard has a quiet and mysterious sense of composition with careful gradations of achromatic color that Powers feels is reminiscent of photographs of moonscapes. Using photoshop to design the sketch, Powers builds layers by taking close-up photographs of wood grain, a surface noted for its concentric curvilinear patterns, like the rings of Saturn, as well as a visual rendition of sound echoes that cannot be heard in outer space. Pumice is used as a geological pixel to convey the grain of a digital photograph. The landscape’s static, sci-fi aesthetic is stretched by technological forces, its color blurred into a smooth glassy haze reaching upwards into the atmosphere.
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