Architecture + Images

Jim Kazanjian is is one of the few exponents of the masterfull combination of architecture and images that create creations that defy the normal conception of physics and reality.

Jim Kazanjian received his MFA from the Art Center College of Design in '92. His BFA was completed at the Kansas City Art Institute in '90. He has worked professionally as a commercial CGI artist for the past 18 years in television and game production. Some of the most well known clients he has collaborated with include: Nike, Adidas, NBC, CBS, HBO, NASA, HP, Intel and others. He currently lives in Portland, Oregon.

In the artists words “I am interested in how an image can have the potential to unfold and suggest something outside of itself. By this I mean something beyond the obvious and only discovered through a continued process of viewing. It is this act of “looking” that I find fascinating because it does not follow a linear progression like language but is interactive and random”

Jim Kazanjian says that he is creating those images by digitally manipulating photographs from the internet. His vast collection spans an incredible number of 26 thousand photos!!

The collection of photos that is shown here are mostly influenced from the fictional writer H.P lovecraft and his narrative archetypes of de-familiarizing the familiar.

In order to create these images he most oftenly uses from 12-30 photos that uses as blocks that later combines in photoshop.

His process of creation is kind of organic as he prefers to describe it. He rarely pre-conceptualizes his work but lets the pieces inform his editing process just as solving a puzzle

 

The collection of photos that is shown here are mostly influenced from the fictional writer H.P lovecraft and his narrative archetypes of de-familiarizing the familiar.