Working in a 3D environment using Maya just seems to suit me as it’s a very sculptural way of making images and rather than just drawing a picture, it’s a way of building the content of the little world I create. It’s very much like constructing a fairytale story with the dolls and toys you had or wanted as a child. In this case, you are building all your toys and with those toys you start to see differences and more clarity each time you enact out that story. I really love modeling my figures in Maya and setting up the figures with movement and posing and building the dresses and shoes and styling the hair and creating the rooms and chairs and hidden contents that exist in each box and hiding place. I set up the lights and adjust virtual cameras and it always seems to me like the opening night of a little theater when I begin to see the final image. I think that creating another little world within a world is very much like looking inside my own head in a way.
I have drawn, painted, and made sculpture for years and for some strange reason, I don’t see what I do any “less” traditional than those methods as it seems I have been given a tool to play with my imagination. I think in the coming years, the computer will become the greatest tool that was ever made for creativity, art, and the exploration of the human imagination and the tradition is being made as we do it now.
~ Ray Caesar, “Girl in a Red Chaperone” and “The Sporting Life”
“Girl in a Red Chaperone,” the marvelous brand new piece by Ray Caesar, is NOW exhibited at Dorothy Circus Gallery, together with the one of a kind single varnished “The Sporting Life”, on view in our white room.
