ΛλOWGLI
Virtual Horizon
Bliss|ssilB (by Mowgli Omari)
2013, Backlit Print
420mm x 297mm
The hang for my recent college unit. The piece above draws inspiration directly from the digital landscape I am attempting to portray. Creating a work that directly appropriates the represented landscape of the computer. National Geographic photographer Charles O’Rear originally took the image that I have appropriated for this piece in 1996, using a medium format camera. Soon after the image was taken Windows bought the rights to use it as the default background for their XP operating system. Named ‘Bliss’ the picture is now thought to be the most viewed images of all time, according to reports online over billion people have seen it. The image represents new medias ability to take from the physical world and reshape material identity. Using ‘Bliss’ I began to create the paper sculpture that would aim to make the same transition from a physical state, to a new digital individuality that the former landscape had also undergone.
