this planet is teeming with life and structures resembling it.
we humans have the ability and time to experience them.
to interpret these structures visually and all their phenomenal forms and colours is what david jacobsen tries in his drawings in a rather abstract and formal way.
in patterns he feels time, natural forces, balance, dynamics and decay.
david jacobsen studied visual design at the university of design schwäbisch gmünd, which is influenced by the bauhaus movement and teaches simplistic design aesthetics. he lives in the southwest of germany and works as a designer and artist. during this time natural and artificial structures and patterns caught his eye, which he started to capture in bled off photography back then.
now all graphics are drawn - without the use of algorithms or program code, but with a simple graphic tablet and then printed only once. the formats and sizes david chooses for his pictures vary. therefore he still sees himself - rather than simply as a digital graphic artist - more in the tradition of abstract painters as can be seen in work and fo(u)r free.
david jacobsens black and white photography (b + w) concentrates solely on natural, two-dimensional structures and patterns. these are taken with high resolution cameras in flat light in square format only.
these are the two parts of davids visual work: abstract graphics and monochromatic nature photography with an abstract quality. both parts are heavily interdependent. both only show bled-off, two-dimensional patterns. david jacobsens influences are various through time and hemispheres, full of these structures of tiny, universal traces of life itself.
contact: mail@davidjacobsen.com
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