MILLEFIORI : "Devadatta"
 
Signed Open edition, in 3 available sizes. Printed on Somerset Velvet 100% rag museum quality paper, with archival pigment inks.
 
The conch shell evolving clockwise and the fractal patterns evolving counter-clockwise are in a cosmic dance of their own. Their difference is their union. This image unites a natural object, with the intangible limitlessness of fractal geometry. This is where  Myth, Mathematics, and Physics meet.
 
In this panting I attempted to express the reverberating sound of "Devadatta," the Conch shell of Prince Arjuna as it resonates to signal the beginning of the Indian epic battle of the Mahabharata. It is when and within the unfathomable chaos of this battlefield, itself a metaphor for the struggle of life, that Arjuna is revealed the nature of existence an destiny in his dialogue by his divine charioteer.
  
 In this series Titled  Millefiori. I sculpted a virtual three dimensional seashell and used my own photographs and paintings to cover  the surface of the object to  reflect the  background.
 
Signed open edition, in 3 available sizes. Printed on Somerset Velvet 100% rag museum quality paper, with archival pigment inks. 
 
As one of the earliest traditional painter to embrace the digital media, not as a medium to emulate techniques of the past, but as one that reveals new horizons of artistic vision by surpassing traditional techniques.
The digital media allows  limitless possibilities of color relationship and subtleties which do not exist in traditional methods.
That is why I often compose combine and bring forward my traditional work to be enhanced by the digital media.
 
Jean-Francois Podevin