Although the painting titled ‘Suspension’ by Dan Hays is on a large scale already (150 x 200cm), I’m imagining it billboard size or bigger. Because the painting has been made to replicate a screen that is showing a snowy landscape, the way the painting has been created is the part that drew me to this piece. Pixels in a screen are made by red, blue and green dots. this dot increases or decreases intensity of their red, blue or green colour depending on what tint or tone is required to make up the image. Hay’s has painted this piece using thousands of tiny red, blue and green dots to replicate that of a screen. This is not so obvious though when seen it’s original scale, so therefore enlarging it will make these dots more evident. This in turn will obscure the image, and will make it almost unrecognisable as to what it originally showed. It would give the piece a whole new perspective which might make it overwhelming. It will lose some of its original qualities which make the painting effective, such as the fine detail behind the work. Making it smaller however wouldn’t have the same effect, but would almost make it easier to see what it’s trying to represent which is a snowy scene. This loses the point behind why the artwork was made which was to represent an image in relation to how technology shows it.

Suspension by Dan Hays (2014)

The use of dots to create the painting up close