Theodora
Transcendental Complexity in Euclidian Space
- Team / Mete Kutlu
- Location / Paris
- Period / May 2021
Detexturing
Constantinople is represented as a luminous golden wireframe, without colors and shadows.
A line simulation generates impressions of randomness and chaos, a virtual complexity beyond human intelligence.
The model stands over a background of Tyrian Purple, the sacred and imperial color of the Byzantines.
Combining divine symbolism with the digital miniature, Constantinople becomes the purple city: Porphyropolis.
Cloud of Potentials
Glitters of Gold
In the mystical visual culture of Constantinople, the abundant use of gold expressed the unveiling of the divine light. The golden wireframe is the reinterpretation of the gold contours of buildings in the Ottoman miniatures and Byzantine gold mosaics illuminating interior spaces.
Revelation of the City of Light
Constantinople between order and chaos
Nev Kostantiniyye: The City of Electronic Gods
Eternal Lights of the Phanarion
Ecstatic Images
The hypnotic geometrical compositions reflects the Sufi's ecstatic state of fana, the death of ego and union with the cosmos. Resembling the magical drawings of the Ottoman alchemists, they reveal the talismanic qualities of the urban space of Constantinople.
Coming From Adrianople
Talismanic Photon Towers
Over the Square of Pseudo-Dionysius
World of Light
In the ephemeral world of pixels, this weightless and luminous representation translates the painter-prophet Mani's ideal: the liberation of sublime parcels of light from the evil world of matter in which they are imprisoned.
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Renovatio constantinopolitanae
Towers of Electronic Light
In the Apocalyptic City of Light 01
In the Apocalyptic City of Light 02
In the Apocalyptic City of Light
Talismanic Urbanscape of Constantinople
Talismanic Towers of Constantinople
Making-of
Decomposition and recomposition of the wireframe
Hair render of the wireframe and its animation with the frizz function