Fill This Up

Fill This Up by Rafaël Rozendaal

Formal Analysis

"Fill This Up" is the title and domain name of one of Rafaël Rozendaal's online artworks that starts to exist from January 2014. This piece turns the browser into a canvas upon which we can drag our cursor around to make pastel shapes unfold like origami in quick succession. You can drag to fill the page, and click to reverse it back to white. It is a brilliant digital art piece that keeps viewer entertained by moving the cursor around to create the piece and fill the screen with gradient colorful geometrical bits.

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  Rozendaal, "Fill This Up" (2014), Digital Web Medium
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www.fillthisup.com

Work’s Content and Relationship to other Mediums

This artwork has strong ties to both painting and animation. It consists of dynamic compositions on the unpredictable canvas. We see concentration of painting plus liveliness of animation in this piece.Rozendaal explains the relationship of time in these two medium and how it functions in his works: "I love that paintings are immediate, opposed to video art. To see a large number of video artworks, you’d have to spend five to ten minutes with each piece. Paintings are different, you scan the works quickly, and stop wherever you want and dive into that work. Once a painting catches your eye, there is a heightened connection between you and the work, a special focus."

Rozendaal, "Fill This Up" (2014)

Viewer relationship

This work completes with viewer interaction to the work through cursor as long as he/she continues. Rozendaal believes that: "The Internet has its own pace. When we surf the web, we forget about time. I hope that people feel that way when they browse my websites." Which is true about "Fill This Up", viewer continue to fill the screen over and over without thinking about time.

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