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ID | SDL2025G01
Title | SDL Origins
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SDL Origins is a prelude to my Project SDL InnerSpace, showcasing the earliest seeds of my graphic journey, from archives dating back to 1992. It reveals the foundational motor skills, conceptual motifs, and artistic philosophies that have shaped my work.
The items in this collection are selected not so much based on artistic performance—most are old sketches created in the earliest graphic editors—but rather on the historic significance of each image. Some of these works are achievements I am still proud of, and a few are perhaps personal masterpieces and performances I cannot repeat with the same excellence.
In Project InnerSpace, I will be re-using and repurposing my old originals, including vector drills, sketches, and icons, but the items of this collection, though modest, are of utmost importance for almost everything I have done in computer graphics art. This is the main reason they are being published. They are all conceptual seeds which, over the decades, have evolved and differentiated into several series and subseries of concepts, creative methods, motifs, and themes, which constitute the authentic essence of the items in SDL InnerSpace.
The items in Origins are also interesting as a showcase of basic relevant manual skills, which together emphasize my authenticity. They summarize every motor skill I have been using since the first time I made a drawing in a computer, to make the equivalent of a brush or pen stroke movement in computer graphics: drawing shapes and lines with simple mouse control gestures, press-hold-move-release, right click and left clicks. This is my level of “perfection” in this context and sense. Since then, when these images were created, I haven’t become much better at this type of mouse-hand motoric and techniques. I can create more advanced images, but the skills and techniques I still use are cumulative combinations of those displayed in SDL Origins.
SDL Origins is a time capsule of digital artistry; a personal archive of creative evolution spanning over three decades; a manifesto of authenticity; a declaration that human skill, memory, and meaning matter more than automated industrial polish; a tribute to the mouse gestures that became my brushstrokes; a reminder that art is not so much about what we make—it’s how we remember, reinterpret, and reimagine.
The items in SDL Origins are divided into two distinct yet complementary categories or chapters: Vector Vintage and Raster Retro.
