Petronio Bendito

Statement

Through my computational color design research, I develop algorithmic methods to produce color palettes for RGB and CMYK outputs. For the “Color Code, Algorithmic Lines” series, a hybrid process of creation combines mathematical and intuitive approaches for self-expression. I have found that color combinations generated from RGB planes and cuboids, despite being structurally simple, can produce sophisticated and expressive color palettes. Formalistically, I orchestrate via color and shape visual solutions that propose a unified reading of extremes: balance and chaos, light and darkness, structure and spontaneity. I believe that procedural colors will play a major role in art and design color selection processes in the 21st Century.

Artworks

The chromatic color palette was generated by a java algorithm that samples colors from the RGB color model, exploring its broad spectral expression. The grayscale was an intervention in Adobe Photoshop, symbolizing the process of "becoming." The colorful side of the rainbow is based on RGB components of nonidentical values ranging from 0 to 255. Black, grays, and white are based on RGB components of identical values ranging from 0 to 255, representing a movement from “emptiness” to “fullness.” As colors become achromatic, they move progressively into a state of balance. Perhaps we can learn from colors that the shift from the chromatic to achromatic nature of life is not a process of death, but rather a movement toward “transcendency.”