{"id":16533,"date":"2024-01-02T14:05:38","date_gmt":"2024-01-02T19:05:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=16533"},"modified":"2024-01-02T14:07:00","modified_gmt":"2024-01-02T19:07:00","slug":"episode-570-chris-silverman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-570-chris-silverman","title":{"rendered":"Episode 570 – Chris Silverman"},"content":{"rendered":"

Virtual Memories Show 570:
\nChris Silverman<\/a><\/p>\n

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“I want to explore the limits of the tool that I’m using, and I want to do something that I think is interesting to look at; there isn’t any higher or more noble purpose than that to #notesArt.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"\"<\/a>Did you make a 2024 resolution to put down your phone? This week’s guest might make you rethink that! Chris Silverman<\/a> has been making gorgeous, weird, haunting artwork daily for more than 2 years, using only his iPhone’s Notes app and his fingertips<\/strong><\/em>. We get into how #notesArt began, how it’s evolved, what his drawing process is like, what it’s been like to build an audience for his art, and how viewers bring their own meanings to his #notesArt. We talk about the challenges of keeping up a regular art practice (daily!), how upgrading to iOS17 jump-started his new creative phase, the artists and cartoonists who influence him, whether Undo is his friend or enemy, his fascination with traffic lights, empty buildings, and masks, and the subconscious burbling that gives birth to the images he draws. We also share our thoughts on mortality, authenticity and identity, what it means to share your art with the world, the pressure that comes when someone is watching<\/a>, and a lot more! Give it a listen!<\/a> And go follow #notesArt<\/a>!<\/p>\n

“For the first year of #notesArt, I really didn’t think about it too much, because nobody was watching, but now by my standards a lot of people are watching, so there’s definitely an element of pressure that wasn’t there before, and I’m trying to figure out how much to let that influence me.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n