THE ART & SCIENCE OF ILLUSION NOW

KIM KEEVER

Our brains want to make meaning out of chaos and randomness. It leaves us open to fall for illusions. A splat of ink or a puffy cloud can become an animal or a face or a pirate ship, perhaps.

Artist Kim Keever creates beautiful illusions by dropping paint into water. Billowing and undulating, like colored clouds in a storm, the images move, from abstract forms to “recognizable” shapes.

Keever’s Art Under Water works are created by pouring selection of pigments into a 200-gallon tankful of water, then photographing their dispersions.

A former NASA engineer, Keever is fascinated by the physics and fluid dynamics of his visual experiments.

No two images are alike. There is little Keever can do to control the shapes and compositions. So he spends many hours experimenting, capturing the serendipitous forms, taking tens of thousands of shots.

Are they magical landscapes? Are they ballerina's twirling and leaping? Are they intimate tussles? They are whatever each viewer sees them to be.

Keever created imagery for Joanna Newsom’s music video, directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, for her new  album, 'Sapokanikan.' Newsom is immersed in Keever’s swirling underwater landscapes as she sings “Divers.”

If you want to view his latest works in the flesh, he has just launched a new solo exhibition, entitled Random Events, at the Waterhouse & Dodd gallery in New York City. In the meantime, check out more of his work at www.kimkeever.com.

Read more about Beautiful Illusions, as it relates to Arts/Design, Nature/Science, Food/Drink, Place/Time, Mind/Body, and Soul/Impact including 10 Films Featuring The Beauty of Illusions Now, These Rainbow Places Are Not Beautiful Illusions See Them Now, and The Beauty of Illusive Still Lifes Now.

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