David Paden

Artist's statement

Science and art have been allied at least since the fifteenth-century when Leonardo da Vinci recorded his observations of the natural world in notebooks and images. In the late twentieth century, the computer has revolutioned the way we relate to our inviroment and to other people and has provided new opportunities and challenges to artists who are seeking new avenues of expression. Art will continue to be made in the trational methods of painting, sculpture, deawing and prinmaking but the presece of the computer has added a new and exciting dimension to the vocabulary that is available for aesthetic expression.

Boundaries of media are being blurred as we enter this new digital age of mark making. Exactly what is this new object? Is it a print? Is it a photograph? If it is printed out on a piece of paper it could be either. I am beginning to believe that it is neither- it should actually be defined as a digital work. These digital works(digital paintings) are probably a hybrid of the old and the new. There completely new as an image in the computer and printed using computer technology.