#digital-aesthetics

#digital-aesthetics

When Mernet Larsen was in her 70s, theproject she had been working on her entire life met a moment. It was the 2010s, and painters everywhere were grappling with how the digital realm affected what we see. People seeing Larsen's paintings for the first time often assumed that they were made using a computer, reading her signature blocky figures as robotic or pixelated-something a machine would create. But they are not computational at all.