THE INCREDIBLE RIVO DIGITAL QUILT SERIES
Video Blog 1074 – The Incredible Digital Quilt
THE INCREDIBLE RIVO DIGITAL QUILT
Created by Master Digitographer, Richard Marvin Voigt – aka RIVO
Richard Marvin Voigt (RIVO) is a Wisconsin born artist, author, editor, photographer, publisher, inventor and educator. His artistic creations were redirected from traditional forms of art as a child in 1947 to mostly digital art creations starting in 1987. Fascinated by the powerful potential of his newly built computers, they afforded him unlimited flexibility in creating and designing compositions that soon began to satisfy his personal passion for digital art. As he became more adept in handling software functions, he began experimenting with complex pixel restoration, archiving thousands of family photographs, old slides and documents; bringing each back to their original quality.
Throughout his life, he has taken hundreds of thousands of photographs and created thousands of original works of art that lead to experimentations in creating his Digital Quilt. Each digital quilt composition is an abstract kaleidoscopic rendering of a person, place or object in the artist’s life. The reoccurring theme he set for his quilt, places an emphasis on line, color and texture that often create optical illusions that play with perceptions; some advance while others retreat in his spatial and colorful compositions. Currently, he’s created over 3000 compositions in his incredible digital quilt collection that when placed end-to-end the entire canvas quilt spans the length of over 22, yes TWENTY-TWO (22) professional football fields.
He has always admired the intricacy of hand-sewn quilts, but wanted to create one on a grand scale using his unique approach. Just as each traditional quilt tells a story, so does each section of his quilt. Each 38” x 38” canvas quilt section can be place contiguously up a wall, continue across ceilings, around corners and even constructed into shapes that can hang from the ceiling or connect on the floor in the form of a three-dimensional maze. Many of these digital compositions capture the symmetrical wonders found growing in the prolific Wisconsin garden oasis his wife Lynn and he have created. Since they began sharing their garden on YouTube with over 1,000 video productions, their garden has now been seen by millions of avid gardeners from 132 countries.
This rare glimpse into one of RIVO’s thematic galleries is an intriguing insight into the creative mind of an artist who passionately explores non-traditional approaches in art while exploring new technology layered with a sense of eastern and western philosophy. If you appreciate and respect a creative mind, then this rare colorful collection will please and inspired your love for balance and metaphoric reflection.
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