Digital Art-project by Andrew Pichakhchi,

Kunstlerdorf art-residency, Germany.

This art project is a study of consciousness.

The project began with the creation of a virtual lost Crimea, an exploration of loss, dreams, and memories, but the opening of the boundaries of virtual space, the “edge of the world,” and going beyond them made it possible to discover “outer space” as dark matter, a mystery of modern astrophysics. And this dark matter, which unexpectedly appeared in the 3D model, signified, as I perceived it, the presence of consciousness and the act of creating the world out of this black nothingness. As a painter, for the first time I used not brushes and paints for a work, but a computer program, using it as a tool and material.

The main part of the project was created at the art residency in Kunstlerdorf / Germany.