 |
 |
||||||||||||
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
|
||
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
|
|||||
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
|
|||||||
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
|
||||||||
|
|
|
||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
||||||||
|
A Short Bio My
name is Jean-Claude Aron. I was born in Paris, France in 1950. My family
moved to New York when I was 5 years old. From an early age, I developed
an (unhealthy? obsessive?) interest in fantasy, science fiction, surrealism
and anything that was beautiful and mysterious. My parents called me
"Jean de la Lune" because I was often distracted by things that they
couldn't understand. I had an aptitude for drawing from an early age,
but never thought of pursuing it as a a career. |
| I went
away to college in 1967, at the time that the psychedelic zeitgeist was
reaching critical mass & got swept up in the maelstrom. My ego disintegrated
& a new one rose like a phoenix from the ashes. I began drawing & painting
in a stream-of-consciousness mode, bypassing the rational mind. I fell
in love, moved to Berkeley, California, and in 1975, my son Casey was
born. I earned a living at many different jobs during that time (though
I spent the most years as a silkscreen printer) and I took many art classes
(illustration, figure drawing, portraiture, color theory, etc.) at a local
community college. I drew, painted and created collages, but had no real
motivation or aptitude for marketing my artwork. In the late 1970's, I
began playing with computers. I learned to program them & wrote simple
software applications for generating visual patterns. I then stumbled
into a successful career in information technology with a Fortune 100
corporation, which lasted 22 years, and from which I retired in May of
2003. |
|
All of my images are created and rendered in Bryce (a 3D modeling and rendering application) with no post-processing at all. Each of them starts with a bare-bones idea or model or texture which I then allow to evolve in whatever direction "it" decides & which I have never been able to predict. I obsessively tweak shapes, colors, textures, & visual relationships until the image seems "right". If the final result is somewhat disturbing and disorienting, yet at the same time beautiful, then I have succeeded...
I can be contacted at this email address.
|