Foliage

"Foliage" is a moment of pause. The project was born from the futile attempt to catch a breath of wind, the one that no one sees but everyone notices when the leaves hang trembling. Inspired by long days near the Rio de la Plata studying the wind, this series of 250 foliage is an exploration of how angles and colors can generate the illusion of movement and harmony. "Foliage" is inspired on wind data visualizations where the use of angles and vectors speak of a trajectory. Winds, like data, travel through our world leaving a trace; this time hosted immutably on the Ethereum Blockchain.

As I said, "Foliage" is inspired by the area where I grew up and lived most of my life. Very close to my house, a few blocks away, is the Río de la Plata, which is a very beautiful place, with lots of wind and vegetation. From that observation is that the project was born. That is why Foliage presents nine different types of plants and the name of each one is inspired by landscapes close to me.

The category is called 'surface analysis' because when you study the winds you need to delimit a research area. In my case, these are my surfaces.

A vegetation near a river course
Ropsten #193

Forgotten leaves on a hill
Ropsten #195

My mom's yard
Ropsten #176

My neighbors vineyard
Ropsten #196

Petals on my grandpa's desk
Ropsten #80

Some plants a few blocks from a house
Ropsten #192

Spikes from a infected plant
Ropsten #186

The lawn of a noble garden
Ropsten #134

The weeds of an abandoned land
Ropsten #159

Regarding the color palettes, I wanted there to be a wide variety of colors that could reflect many different moments of the year and many different moods. In that variety, I decided to name the different color palettes following the names of the world's best known winds.

Ostro
Ropsten #144

Monzon
Ropsten #130

Alisio
Ropsten #110

Bise
Ropsten #032

Bora
Ropsten #156

Cordonazo
Ropsten #142

Gregal
Ropsten #77

Kóshkil
Ropsten #66

Lebeche
Ropsten #18

Levante
Ropsten #118

Minuano
Ropsten #152

Mistral
Ropsten #116

Anime
Out of bounds

Sudestada
Ropsten #138

Pampero
Ropsten #168

Passat
Ropsten #146

Poniente
Ropsten #5

Puelche
Ropsten #46

Rashabar
Ropsten #189

Sirocco
Ropsten #128

Zonda
Ropsten #2

Tramontana
Ropsten #109

To paint the foliage, I chose to use three techniques that I called: Random, Angle and Grid. Each uses a different technique that generates a different pattern. All the ways of coloring the foliage are based on the position and angle relationship that each leaf vector has.

Angle
Ropsten #145

Grid
Ropsten #16

Random
Ropsten #97

Each foliage can have different styles. I separated them into five different styles: Shady, Magic, Clean, Veins and Anime. The "Shady" style has more depth through shadow work that creates volume. In "Magic" the color palette is inverted to color the edges of the leaves, which makes it more vibrant and colorful.In the "Veins" style the border of the leaves can be black or white and this disappears as the leaves scale, while in "Clean" there is no border at all, which at times makes the colors lose their borders. The "Anime" style is quite different and alludes to something mystical.

Anime
Out of band

Clean
Ropsten #162

Magic
Ropsten #120

Shady
Ropsten #19

Veins
Ropsten #54

Finally, as the wind blows, the foliage may release more or less pollen, depending on their characteristics. There may be a lot or a light amount of pollen, or no pollen at all.

Hard
Ropsten #29

Light
Ropsten #153

Off
Ropsten #167