Project Overview
“Fractured Aperture” is a digital drawing series that examines how we perceive—and are influenced by—the fractures in our own lenses, both literal and metaphorical. Each piece combines a precise, radial “aperture” grid with organic, cracked lines that radiate from a single focal point. By intersecting the clean geometry of the grid with the jagged chaos of the fractures, the work explores themes of vulnerability, distortion, and the tension between clarity and rupture.
Visual Elements & Process
Radial Grid: Represents structure, vision, and the frameworks through which we view the world (optics, data, memory).
Crack Lines: Symbolize disruption—emotional, psychological, or physical—and how a single impact can send reverberations through our entire perspective.
Subject Matter: From the intimate close-up of a human eye peering through broken glass to a lone lamb standing in a fractured landscape, each drawing juxtaposes innocence or stillness against the violence of shatter.
Layered Composition: The grid is constructed first, then the cracks are painted in multiple passes. The subject sits “behind” or “within” the broken plane, integrated via opacity masks.
Color Palette: Muted pastels (greens, grays, pale pinks) ground the images in a dreamlike mood, while stark blacks and off-whites emphasize the break lines.
