Happy New Year Canvas Sculpture (detail)

Urban canvas (detail).

Diodes, resistors, plastic, heat sinks, fibers, and copper reside on this canvas face. The same media and medium lie embedded in the epoxy, resin, and color medium mix that cover the canvas and submerge the elements. Urban and  masculine with a touch of feminine as the circle of green fiber reside in the connector sphere. A landscape of earth and urban, organic and digital, masculine and feminine, canvas and sculpture combined into one work of art fabricated to hang on a vertical surface.

Early Digital Computage

Harkrader bought his first version of Adobe Photoshop in 1994 after purchasing his first computer to participate online with the now historic Blacksburg Electronic Village. The BEV was touted as the worlds first electronic village and was a collaboration between Virginia Tech, Town of Blacksburg and Bell Atlantic. He used Netscape to browse for the first time and Photoshop to create his first digital art. The image above was compulation of photographing an early Harkrader painting, photographing his wife's automobile, using Photoshop tools to paint, blend, merge and layer the digital collage into one single unit of blended art.