Perfect Glowing Bodies (2015)
The artist known as Strangethink has been gradually developing an aesthetic that embraces procedural generation. Rather than trying to imitate nature in the abstract imperfections most photorealistic generators attempt, Strangethink’s generative projects embrace the weirdness of the algorithm, translating you to an alien world that invites you to accept it on its own terms.
It’s easy to imagine this character creator as a small part of a larger whole, a world populated by Opposite Puritans, Anti Pacifists, and Nebulous Friends. But it stands on its own as dark reflection of mundane character creators, its sliders at least as effective as the usual blend shapes.
The alien nature makes it all the more evocative as it jumbles names and shapes and symbols in a way that seems just tantalizingly comprehensible.