David Spriggs is best known for his unique large-scale 3D ephemeral-like installations using a technique he developed in 1999, layering transparent images. His work is composed of a series of transparent plastic sheets inhabited by hand-drawn shapes and figures. When superposed, the hand-painted shapes create the illusion of 3D forms appearing like they magically glow and hover in place.
“He explores the representation and strategies of power, the symbolic meanings of color, movement, and the thresholds of form and perception. The subjects depicted in his work specifically relate to the breakdown and recreation of form and volume – as seen through his interest in cyclones, explosions, and forces,” according to his Facebook page.
Spriggs works from abstract topographical maps that are based on absolute geometric shapes. “I often use the golden ratio to determine the placement and shape of a form. Axis of Power, for example, is based on a perfect golden spiral and the placement of the eye of the storm located at the golden ratio of the installation at 1.618,” he told Colossal. “The artwork Gravity also is based on the golden spiral with all the marks following this spiral in a perfect hemisphere.”
His latest work, “Axis of Power,” is on exhibition at the Powerlong Museum in Shanghai and runs through Oct. 7, 2019.
