"Final Images 2009 - 2010" (Special Version)

The images in this video slide show are taken in part from the film "Final Images 2009 - 2010" which is a presentation of some of the last works of the American artist, J. Lieutenis (b.1953 - d. 2010). This Special Version is an introduction to those viewers of Picasa Web Albums and the readers of "SaveImageAs" who have been curious and intrigued by this enigmatic man.
Many of the images are seen here for the first time and would seem to have indicated an entirely new area of computer art that Lieutenis intended to follow had he lived. Certainly, his reputation for creating PHOTICS alone would have warranted a nomination the more innovative among 21st Century artists. Yet, his love of repetition, particularly subtly altered but essentially similar designs, seemed to have led him to the uncompleted but haunting "Ice_Galaxy_Storm", a number of selections from which are seen here. These asteroid-planets, moving silently through a nameless galaxy seem to bespeak almost every adventure of mankind from the exploration around us to the introspection of what is within us. I know the inspiration (which is seen in the first of the images, before the formal titles--a yellow, blue and red asteroid) was based on the flag of the Cherokee nation.
I chose the music very carefully knowing how Jay believed music, titles, transitions all to be "critical, my dear, even in the smallest piece. For it is theater after all."
I chose the final movement from "Ma Mere L'Oye" (The Mother Goose Suite") by Maurice Ravel, not only because Lieutenis so admired Ravel's sense of the visual, but because I well remember him telling me that he received a record album on his sixth birthday that had, on one side, this piece and on the other, "The Sorcerer's Apprentice". He described that album as "a prepubescent turning point in my artistic development." No doubt it was. Particularly since the album was given to him by the mistress of Pablo Casals. For us, it is the Final Images of Lieutenis that suggest where he next may have led our imaginations. For him, however, I am quite certain it was one of those First Images--handing him his birthday present--that was--if not even more than the record album--a "prepubescent turning point". I'm glad he had such a moment. I wish I;d had one. I'm glad he shared it with all of us.

The images you see here are under copyright by The Ulander Project and/or the Estate of J. Lieutenis. Please do not download, disseminate, duplicate, alter or distribute any form of these images without written permission from The Ulander Project (c) 2010

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