Robert P. Taylor's Flowery: a webbery of flower images 

Links to Related Taylor websites

Visiting some of Taylor's other sketch-based websites described and linked below can broaden the context for interpreting Flowery. Though each has its own distinct theme and rationale, each is strongly related to Flowery in that each exists in part at least to : (1) clarify and extend the relationship between text and image in the medium of the web, and (2) to illustrate the use of digital technology to modify and display images.
webbery opened 1996, last update 1998; 300 images; first site, conceptualized and implemented ways to use the web to exhibit large numbers of images in various "virtually simultaneous" concurrent exhibits (that is, the same image appear in 2 or more exhibits concurrently), to allow visitors more contextual freedom in viewing the images and the site creator more opportunity to arrange images in revelatory contexts; images represented a wide range of subjects; generated the first versions of many of the concepts and ideas that shaped the sites that followed.

artonart opened 1999, reformatted and unupdated; 173 images; first website stemming from Webbery to present images based on the art of others; drawings reflect art in many modes - paintings, drawings, sculptures, prints, etchings, and so on; explores concurrent exhibiting to present the images in many different contexts concurrently; directly spawned SeeAnew (below).

seeanew opened 2000, reformatted, expanded, and updated December 2001; 125 plus images; focuses ideas of artonart, by limiting those images to drawings just of sculptures by other artists; besides demonstrating further use of concurrent exhibiting, this site, through a number of revelatory exhibits, formally presents use of digital technology to preserve, modify, and display drawings, and to illuminate the process of drawing.

chippery opened 2001, unupdated; 14 images; by presenting 14 portraits executed on paint chips, each suggested by its chip's shape, chippery was created to encourage invention by illustrating it; exhibits archived versions of chip portraits in progress and of initially "empty" chips, to explain the concepts and ideas it is arguing for.

Index to all Exhibits   Site's artist and creator   Comments   Main Page