Usurplust
Hadrian Ra's first piece of visual art: an animated glitch-art work about flawed perception, made in only four colours. Sold as an NFT.
Skills shown: digital art, animation
About
Usurplust is my genesis artwork in the optical medium - the first piece of visual art I have ever created. It took over a month of effort, compounding 404 layers, utilizing exclusively 4 colors (#000000 black, #FF0000 red, #00FF00 green and #0000FF blue) that symbolize the glitch-art technique, allegorizing the very theme of it: an abrupt change in flawed perception.
The name consists of three other words: Usurp, Surplus and Lust, giving rise to the fourth one that is an amalgamation expressing desire to be accepted, vanquishing of the flame in fog, the hallucination in the dithered RGB mist.
Expanding upon the theme of what is quadrivial, as opposed to the trivial, the image also represents different emotions cast by the figures, all touching one another, the hand in the middle being interpretable as belonging to either of the two standing statues of specters with differing feelings within their gestures.
The dual nature of the message is conveyed through opposing elements of the burning fire versus T.V. snow, showing both the natural and the artificial, the innate and the external, the chained and the free, the shadow and the color, the intention and the extension.
It's only from the position of false and flawed that we can perceive what's true and perfect.
