Nostalgia

Growing up, I was surrounded by artworks as my mother was an artist. One major theme of her paintings was nature. So naturally, I was influenced by mother’s career and her works. Although I ended up majoring in mechanical engineering and chose a career path in the IT industry, art was one of my major interests and from drawings, photography to generative art, always been creating some form of artworks.

One major concern I have when creating a generative artwork is that as an artist, I want to create something beautiful regardless of technique while on the other hand, as an engineer, want to explore technical aspects of generative art. For “Nostalgia”, it is the former case where I focused much more on the strictly what I want to create even with less visual or technical variations.

The style of art in “Nostalgia” is what I’ve been wanting to explore for some time. I wanted to combine aspects of traditional Asian art style and creative coding. To be more specific, I wanted to convey the specific mood of traditional Asian painting characterized by simple and uniform palettes and shapes. As apparent in the picture, the colors are very limited with major difference in shades which I think creates nostalgic mood hence the title “Nostalgia”.