"Using the Image to ASCII tool available online, Enigmatriz found a new way to play with digital assets. "Everyday, I sit on my computer and browse through hundreds of images in the public domain to find things that catch my attention and feel are worth shining a new light on them," says Enigmatriz. "When working with ASCII, what I like and find particularly interesting is the blend between hundred old paintings, photographs etc. and modern technologies.""
"ASCII art is traditionally known as digital, text-based art that creates images using the 95 printable characters defined by the American Standard Code for Information Interchange, usually seen on forums or copypastas. More than just emoticons or kaomojis, ASCII art usually takes the form of extremely detailed images made up of thousands of nifty shapes all available on the average keyboard."
Enigmatriz is an Argentina-based digital artist who employs abstractions, colour manipulation, pixellation and saturation to produce striking images. The works prominently incorporate ASCII, turning keyboard characters into compositional elements. The practice repurposes an Image to ASCII tool to translate public-domain photographs, paintings and archival imagery into text-rendered layers. Historical paintings and photographs are overlaid with spatterings of text; ASCII renders appear atop playing cards and other found media. The juxtaposition of centuries-old source material with modern digital processes produces ethereal contrasts that encourage viewers to parse images into simpler shapes and recognizable characters that function like art’s structural DNA.
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