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| ©Miguel Endara |
We all know how an inkjet printer works. If you have deep knowledge about printing, then I'm sure you will have ideas on dpi or ppi. Miguel Endara's pointillist artwork not only challenge the limitation of his patience, but his stippling also criticise printing technology in nowadays digital age. There are two points supporting my view. First, 3,200,000 ink dots stippled on a 11"x17" paper with a bare hand. Lets do some Maths here...! 3.2million divided by (11"x17") = 17112. That is the average dpi on this piece of art. You might say half of the area is white...! Um... Ok!! Divided it by 2 again. we still get 8556 dpi on it, which is about 28 times more then a normal printing (base on 300dpi standard). Secondly, the content of the work is revealing a Xeroxed photo of his father, face on a scanner glass which implies the transformation from the Xerox copy era to the recent digital printing. 3.2 million stipples and 210 hour dedication, his drawing or painting "pointing" has definitely twisted the traditional art form to a new angle.