Mital’s “Abstractions” series explores the transformation of banal visual features into meditative artworks generated from the visual and auditory models he’s been developing for nearly 20 years. The re-presentation of everyday features into artworks with striking visual complexity, reminiscent of the sacred geometries found in mosques, cathedrals, and iconic sacred spaces, connects the mundane and the divine, allowing for the perception of the extraordinary in the ordinary.
To create the artworks, Mital applies his models to found footage, drone footage, and microscope feeds, exploring low-level visual features devoid of semantics. The result is a captivating and novel depiction of prosaic realities.
Paired with the music, the artworks in this series induce a meditative state that challenges conventional notions of perception. The trance-like quality of the works provides a lens into Mital’s interest in visual cognition, specifically his exploration of the early cortical representation of patterns, edges, and corners.
“Abstractions” present a distinct consilience between Mital’s artistic practice and decades of scientific research, attempting to answer his ongoing questions about the nature of human and machine perception.
