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	Former Director of Visual & Audio Arts for Electronic Arts, Dr. Don Bergland now creates visionary icons portraying human emergence. He is currently Associate Professor of Digital Arts at the University of Victoria, BC, Canada..

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Dr. Don Bergland
bergland@uvic.ca

STATEMENT

DON BERGLAND

ARTIST STATEMENTArt is the conscious and structured arrangement of visual form to externalize an idea for a specified purpose. Art was born when a human first used a tool t

OVERVIEW
	Don Bergland's work consists of visionary icons portraying human emergence. Archetypal metaphors entwined in myth, metamorphosis, resurrection, and regeneration, document the evolutionary shedding of our current consciousness. To achieve the proper psychological effect, the image making process centers on the digital construction of 3D models and environments. The world and its emergent figures are carefully modeled, posed, and “photographed.” The resulting images are then taken into digital processing programs for the application of graphic overlays. These simulate dimension, historicity, and internal structure. Recent works focus on the evolving nature of human transformation. Under the exacting gaze of our own evolutionary journey, our concluded archetypes petrify into rusted husks out of which our constructed future emerges as a proliferating metamorphosis.