Torrent is about being washed away but not lost.
Inspired by residual evidence of torrential downpours, floods and derailed rivers as well as thrown paint and ink, cathartically applied for the purpose of merely having watched it land, streak, smear and drip; just to leave a mark.
Textures of fabric, concrete, paper and marble fused by a tempest... now desiccated and faded, bleached and marred by debris washed on after exposing moments of life. Moments lost; etched incomplete into the landscape.
A nostalgic and possibly misguided love song fusing frantic rhythmic action, erosion and history in a way only time can compose after the violence has long ceased and we are left to excavate the damage and beauty of what can't be harnessed, only experienced or interpreted after the fact, even if any resulting conclusions are fictions filled with contradiction.
Less about truth, more about just having a story that we believe makes sense of it all. Rarely are things black and white.
Torrent is about coming to terms with the past so we can understand the present and navigate the future. In a sense, we're talking about trauma processing, the imperfection of memory and how history changes with time and reflection.
Torrent was created using p5js and a shader. Make sure your GPU is enabled.
Key Commands: S : Save the current frame as a png P : Play/Pause animation A : Advance a frame Z : Go back a frame F : Speed up animation D : Slow down animation
URL Parameters: ?fullscreen=true : Fill entire window ?animated=true : Animate by default ?width=x : Render image with x width (read notes below) ?print=true : Use with "width" to render larger than 5000px wide ?frame=x : Start at frame x ?speed=x : Start at speed x, default is 10, 1 is fastest, higher numbers are slower
See display notes or website for more discussion on rendering high resolution images for printing.
RELEASE DATE
6 Sept 2023
LIBRARY
p5@1.0.0
DISPLAY NOTES
The default renderer can only render up to about 5000px wide because of how it uses a shader. If you want a super high resolution file for printing, use print mode, as this can render at much higher sizes. Print mode removes the ability to animate. For example: ?width=12000&print=true For high resolution images, please use a Chromium browser (Chrome, Brave, Edge, Arc) as Safari gives up pretty easily, at time of publishing at least. Exported image files will be named like: Torrent_<hash>_f20_s10.png The 'f' specifies the frame and 's' is the speed. This way if you want to recreate a print quality render of a particular frame (at a particular speed) you can deduce that. For example: ?width=9000&print=true&frame=20&speed=10
RELEASE DETAILS
300 works released on 6 Sept 2023
CHARITABLE GIVING
10% of primary proceeds will be donated to Outright International.
TAGS
ARTIST SITE
https://jeres.xyz/torrent...
PROJECT ID
0x99a9b7c1116f9ceeb1652de04d5969cce509b069-466
CONTRACT
Etherscan
LICENSE
CC BY-NC 4.0
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Jeremy Schoenherr (Jeres)
Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA
Jeremy Schoenherr (Jeres) is an artist and former engineer living in downtown Los Angeles. They strive to create work that evokes an emotional response and are fascinated with exploring the range of expression possible with the help of randomness, color and texture. They hold a degree in computer engineering from University of Michigan, where they minored in a...
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