Oli Scialdone: Your profession has spanned so many areas, bodily and digital. Are you able to communicate slightly about your journey from nice arts to the artwork of magnificence, and the way web3 matches in? How have you ever considered magnificence as a type of self-expression, throughout conventional and digital mediums?
Dr. Alex Field: For me, traversing conventional and rising areas is a necessary a part of the narration and navigation of the physique and id and self expression. We exist on many planes, each bodily and digital. My origins in nice artwork had the physique and efficiency at its core, commenting on magnificence symbolism, aesthetic consumption, and want. Then that lens inverted when my course of and apply grew to become desired by the style business and I navigated an distinctive area inside magnificence and style. I used to be then capable of remark, reply and evolve the narrative from the within over the past 25 years. Tech has all the time been an important materials in my creation; its fixed evolution of instruments and dimensions opens a plethora of latest methods to discover the physique and id. Web3 is presenting prospects of the physique as immersive expertise, collective consciousness, an omniversal presence. This functionality offers flesh to the prospects at a deeper narration of the self past the bodily and a brand new aesthetic primarily based in a extra philosophical exploration.
OS: You’ve described your self as a “magnificence futurist.” What’s a futurist perspective on magnificence, and the way does it differ from extra conventional views? How did this angle apply in ORGASM, ACTIVATED, the place you deliver to life an iconic model and shade as a digital art work, and what initially drew you to take part within the collaboration?
DAB: A Magnificence Futurist perspective encompasses foresight and perception, speculative design and conceptual parallels, that transcend the bodily and materials into technological experiential and emotional points of magnificence. My strategy to ORGASM, ACTIVATED was very a lot an immersive one; each the filter and the art work are presenting spatial texture, tone and coloration as an emotional setting, product as expertise. Conceptually I used to be seeking to create ‘feeling’ greater than seeing, the viewer collaborating in a ‘second’ that’s transformative and captures the ‘spirit’ and dimension of the NARS Orgasm vary. This iconic model has a presence of artwork and sensuality dedicated to subtlety and complicated color, immersing the viewer in a wealthy narrative. As a multidisciplinary artist, I’m drawn to working with manufacturers with whom I share these parallel aesthetics and ethos.
OS: In a 2022 interview for Wunderman Thomson, you spoke about designing id, saying that it “traverses each the bodily and digital.” What does it imply to design id? How a lot can our identities be designed? Are you able to give us a glimpse of the way you introduced this angle to life all through the method of making “PULSATION?”
DAB: Identification Design is to explain the methodology of artistic apply in creating id via the rules of type, operate, personhood, aesthetic, ethos, and psychology. As we exist within the multiverse, we’re expressing a multiplicity of self, ‘A prismatic Identification.’ These require new types of visualization and expression ‘design.’ This angle is delivered to life by envisaging the interconnectedness of all issues and vibrant matter, the figuration of symbolism and spirituality.
OS: Your art work “PULSATION” has such a heat to it–a serene kind of vitality. Are you able to communicate slightly on the piece, the method of creating it, and translating it into an AR filter?
DAB: Thanks, that’s precisely the tone and texture I wished to convey! The serenity of a state untroubled and transcendent, the twinkling embers after the euphoria, a heat and pulsating after glow . I desired to create an art work that linked a ‘feeling’ with the viewer, the eyes within the picture are closed, suggesting the inside world, touring right into a realm of the senses. For the “PULSATION” piece I used the Metahuman Creator, a digital human configurator. I sculpted a novel human for this venture, whose id I wished to have a presence that embodied the ‘sense ‘ of ORGASM, ACTIVATED. Within the art work I’ve hand drawn the tonality, dimesson, make-up, and texture utilizing Photoshop, Illustrator, and Blender, including photographic actual life swatches of make-up. The AR filter translated the immersive and transformational sensual expertise of orgasm, which is an identical transformational dimension to make-up–each make-up and orgasms exist via reference to the pores and skin. The motion within the filter permits me to create visible poetry imagining the inside kinetic journey and felt expertise.
OS: What have been the attributes of NARS’ Orgasm shade that impressed the piece?
DAB: It’s motion and emotional high quality but in addition its paradox, its mercurial delicate shifts are delicate but boldly advanced, able to depth and dimension, euphoric and serene in equal measures, very like an orgasm itself.
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