Love/Hate - My Relationship with Drones
I’m inspired by seeing the world from new perspectives. I waited 4 months for my DJI’s Phantom 3 Advance, and “advanced,” I would argue, it is not. It’s in constant need of software updates: the remote, the app, the battery, oh my! And even with all of the updates I still can’t get the darn thing off the ground. In the 18 months since it arrived I’ve flown it four times for a whooping three minutes. I’ve even taken Drone flight class – they couldn’t help me. They did, however, show me the latest and greatest in the world of drones: it’s big, black and automatically avoids trees and power lines. A breakthrough! Frustrated and impatient, I temporarily gave up attempting to actually fly the drone and started to imagine the most beautiful landscapes… punctuated with drones.
In his TED Talk, “A Darwinian Theory of beauty,” Denis Dutton revealed that its commonly agreed that Savannah’s landscape is the most beautiful. Quite an accolade. He describes it as wide open with low grasses, trees, water in the distance, animal life, with paths and roads or rivers extending into the distance. Feeling the urge to bring this image to life, I Goggled this vista and painted the beautiful landscape…with my drone flying above them.
With my curiosity peaked, my drone research continued. I read about Eagles that can be trained to take drones down. Then explored it through my art, painting talons poised to grab a drone blade, a lasso about to pull it out of the sky, a net about to take it down. I ruminated about how annoying drones actually are. That led to a piece with my drone next to it a hole in the canvas from where a rock was throw, a real rock below the painting the ground.
I’ve also channeled the noise drones make. It’s like a swarm of hornets. Painting the sound of drones are the last few paintings below.
I’m inspired by seeing the world from new perspectives. I waited 4 months for my DJI’s Phantom 3 Advance, and “advanced,” I would argue, it is not. It’s in constant need of software updates: the remote, the app, the battery, oh my! And even with all of the updates I still can’t get the darn thing off the ground. In the 18 months since it arrived I’ve flown it four times for a whooping three minutes. I’ve even taken Drone flight class – they couldn’t help me. They did, however, show me the latest and greatest in the world of drones: it’s big, black and automatically avoids trees and power lines. A breakthrough! Frustrated and impatient, I temporarily gave up attempting to actually fly the drone and started to imagine the most beautiful landscapes… punctuated with drones.
In his TED Talk, “A Darwinian Theory of beauty,” Denis Dutton revealed that its commonly agreed that Savannah’s landscape is the most beautiful. Quite an accolade. He describes it as wide open with low grasses, trees, water in the distance, animal life, with paths and roads or rivers extending into the distance. Feeling the urge to bring this image to life, I Goggled this vista and painted the beautiful landscape…with my drone flying above them.
With my curiosity peaked, my drone research continued. I read about Eagles that can be trained to take drones down. Then explored it through my art, painting talons poised to grab a drone blade, a lasso about to pull it out of the sky, a net about to take it down. I ruminated about how annoying drones actually are. That led to a piece with my drone next to it a hole in the canvas from where a rock was throw, a real rock below the painting the ground.
I’ve also channeled the noise drones make. It’s like a swarm of hornets. Painting the sound of drones are the last few paintings below.
Drone landscape 18x24 Oil $1,800
Eagle taking down a drone 24x36
Oil $2,200
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Lassoing a Drone 30x40 Oil $2,200
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Landscape
36 x 48
Oil
$4,500
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Landscape 36 x 48 oil $4,500
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