Amorphic Design:

Without specific form or character.

In reality, the term 'Amorphic design' is an oxymoron (contradictory in nature) because 'amorphic' literally means the absence of a fixed structure or design - the object/image's structure is randomized in nature.

For example, there is crystalline silica and amorphous silica. With crystalline silica the atoms are bonded together in a specific pattern which create readily recognizable forms, whereas with amorphic silica, the end structure is randomized and without specific form - more or less a blob.

My view of Amorphic Design is that of allowing the image to happen/elove without a preconceived outcome in mind through digital manipulation.

I often start with a blank canvas and simply add effects and colours until something happens - I have no concept of what the outcome will be. Then, sometimes, I will take an image and simply play with it; subsequently, each outcome is radically different in nature - maybe not 'amorphic' in the true sense of the word, but an amorphic process in the context of designing the image.

dulce et decorum  est pro patria mori  -  It is sweet and proper to die for one's country

!n articulo mortis  - At the point of death

Missa Defunctor um - Mass of the Dead

Chiwo - the Mayan spider

Entrance to oblivion

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