Digital Artists...

What is this new term 'Digital Artist'? What does it mean? That the artist is a robot controlled by computer interface? So many strange terms these days... Artists can't be digital can they? Now, it might look as if I'm only making silly comments on a term here, but I think there is more to it. Labels are misleading. Since I started working digitally about a year ago I have had several people calling me a 'digital artist'. They probably don't know that I've been working in a most analogue/traditional fashion for ages… and I still do. Using the ways of modern labelling I am also a fantasy artist. But then, I do abstracts too, in acrylics. Am I an acrylic artist during those hours? That sounds weird, doesn't it? I think it is very possible to work traditionally with digital media. And it is possible to carve modern age imagery in rock. …So, where is this leading? Labels and titles confuse. They make us see things in a limited and simplified way, where things are really more complicated (or less).

I am not a digital artist. I never was. I am an artist who prefers painting as a medium, and I happen to like digital tools, alright? No! It is not alright! The thing is I am not an artist at all! That is a very limiting idea of what I am. I am a human being, who's been through art-school and who likes to express himself through images rather often. In fact, it doesn't end there either… but to take it yet another step is perhaps to become too philosophical for a DA Journal. But in my opinion, 'human' is a limiting label as well. I am.

Now...let there be light, so that I can paint! Preferably the digital light from a wide screen monitor.  

/Cheers!