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A Photoscanned Sunflower Is Transformed Into A Fleshy Digital Form

Armin Keplinger's 1:1000 mixes scanning technology and CGI to create a bizarre digital creature.

Looks can be deceiving. In Berlin-basedartist Armin Keplinger's video piece 1:1000, what looks like a strange alien lifeform, abstract and mutating as it hangs suspended in the air, is actually a 3D photoscan of a sunflower, albeit manipulated with CGI.

The result makes for a striking video where a fleshy being comes digitally to life and thin spikes grow outwards from it. As the camera angle changes, different parts of the structure are highlighted and with this change in perspective, your comprehension of the form changes too until at the end you're left with dripping streaks that slip down the screen in glitchy lines.

Keplinger says he uses "different stages of time" to create a drastic "revolution of surface, shape and structure", so we're left baffled and captivated by what we've seen. The piece features as a video installation at the Red Never Follows exhibition at the Saatchi Gallery, London.

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