{"id":2479,"date":"2012-05-06T04:37:47","date_gmt":"2012-05-06T04:37:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/monochromist.com\/2012\/05\/06\/purestform-floccular-portraits-golan-levin\/"},"modified":"2017-07-10T00:03:37","modified_gmt":"2017-07-10T00:03:37","slug":"purestform-floccular-portraits-golan-levin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monochromist.com\/notes\/2012\/05\/06\/purestform-floccular-portraits-golan-levin\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/purestform.tumblr.com\/post\/21581002884\/floccular-portraits-golan-levin-1999-in-the\">purestform<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flong.com\/projects\/floccugraph\/\">Floccular Portraits<\/a><\/strong><br \/> Golan Levin<br \/> 1999<\/p>\n<p>In the Floccular Portrait system, filaments drawn by the user of Floccus are buffeted by forces derived from a hidden but underlying photograph. Light-colored filaments are attracted to bright regions of the photograph, while dark filaments are attracted to dark regions. I used these simple rules to coalesce piles of casual scribbles into several portraits of my colleagues. The results are wispy, organic and sometimes unsettling transformations: chiaroscuros in hair.<br \/> The Floccular Portraits were inspired in part by Vik Muniz\u2019s \u201cPictures in Thread\u201d (1994)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>purestform: Floccular Portraits Golan Levin 1999 In the Floccular Portrait system, filaments drawn by the user of Floccus are buffeted by forces derived from a hidden but underlying photograph. Light-colored filaments are attracted to bright regions of the photograph, while dark filaments are attracted to dark regions. 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