18

Joss C. Motorbike

18 for me, it has always conveyed the powerful motor of an 18 wheeled hauler barreling down the autobahn, snubnosed and filled with the cargo little children beg their parents to buy. But this association, this is rubbish, you cannot make art for and about a beast of burden like the diesel belching many wheeled box truck. I refuse. Instead my inspiration came from a recent afternoon spent under the sky, imagining shapes in my mind, rotating them and making them come together to create new shapes. I used a free web-based 3D modeling application to make a crude 18 out of basic shapes, and downloaded this as a flat image, to which I added two of my favorite found photos, and in some capacity for masking and layering this final image was given form by me for you to your viewers. Having sat, laid, and stood next to this piece now for the previous 5 days I find myself intrigued by my own use of other peoples images, there is a, how do you say, naughty aspect there, but it is fair use, I think, to make the art, you must steal, as all great artists do whether consciously or not. I would like to continue to explore both this and the democratized ability to create 3 dimensional shapes on the viewing screen of my device. Very modern man of me.